University of British Columbia Press
Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma
A History of British Columbia’s Social Policy
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma
A History of British Columbia’s Social Policy
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 “A proper independent spirit”: The Vancouver City Crèche, 1909–20
2 “Self help is to be encouraged to the fullest extent”: Working Mothers and the State in the Interwar Years
3 “It takes real mothers and real homes to make real children”: Child Care Debates during and after the Second World War
4 “The working mother is here to stay”: The Making of Provincial Child Care Policy in the 1960s
5 “Talkin’ Day Care Blues”: Feminist Child Care Battles in the 1960s and 1970s
6 “The feeling lingers that day care just isn’t nice”: Provincial and National Child Care Politics since the Mid-1970s
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography; Index