Françoise Bloch
Françoise Bloch
This article has its roots in the basic contradictions, which go back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, between the self-interest and the care of others, exemplified by the delegation of responsibility for the care of children and...
[Disguises, invisibility and disqualification of the guards of children in French-speaking Switzerland] [0.03%]
[伪装、隐身以及法语区瑞士儿童监护人的不合格身份]
Véronique Pache Huber
Véronique Pache Huber
Various factors oblige today's parents to entrust their children to a child-care worker (CCW), providing services in the domestic sphere, either at the child's parental house or at the day-care worker's (DCW's) own home. Taking this into ac...
Marie-France Morel
Marie-France Morel
As they became more widely adopted in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France, wet-nursing and wet-nurses appeared prominently in the iconography of the time. Such images turned negative as criticism against “mercenary breast-feeding” m...
[Forms of custody of children placed in Switzerland: ambiguous policies, resistance, and conflicting objectives (1850-1950)] [0.03%]
[瑞士代养儿童监护形式:模棱两可的政策、阻力和冲突的目标(1850-1950)]
Anne-Lise Head-König
Anne-Lise Head-König
In the past, many European countries were faced with the problem of providing care for boarded-out children. And very often the policies implemented up to the middle of the twentieth century were essentially similar and thus similarly inade...
Who cares for me? Grandparents, nannies and babysitters caring for children in contemporary Italy [0.03%]
谁来照料孩子?当代意大利的祖父母、保姆和临时看护者
Raffaella Sarti
Raffaella Sarti
This paper illustrates the factors and features of the revival of paid care and domestic work in Italy. While Italy is experiencing a boom in the recourse to carers for the elderly, there is not a corresponding expansion in paid private chi...
Blurring boundaries, distant companions: non-kin female caregivers for children in colonial India (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) [0.03%]
模糊的界限,遥远的伴侣:殖民地印度(十九世纪和二十世纪)儿童非亲属女性照顾者
Swapna M Banerjee
Swapna M Banerjee
This paper examines the history of child-care by non-kin, “non-family” members and their representations in colonial India. It focuses primarily on Bengal and relies on several genres of literary documents. Bengal harboured the seat of th...
Liminal cultural work in family childcare: Latino immigrant family childcare providers and bicultural childrearing in the United States, 2002-2004 [0.03%]
跨界文化工作与家庭幼儿照顾——论拉丁美洲移民家庭幼儿看护者及双语育儿方式(美国,2002—2004年)
Lynet Uttal
Lynet Uttal
Immigrants find themselves in a liminal state of limbo between two societies. In this zone, competing cultural ideas coexist. This essay examines how Latino immigrant family childcare providers in the United States questioned US norms of ch...
Joaquim Pintassilgo
Joaquim Pintassilgo
“One man one job”: the marriage ban and the employment of women teachers in Irish primary schools [0.03%]
“一人一业”:禁婚令与爱尔兰小学女教师的就业问题
Jennifer Redmond,Judith Harford
Jennifer Redmond
In 1932, the Irish government, facing an economic downturn, introduced a marriage ban which required that female primary school teachers were required to resign on marriage. This followed a series of restrictive legislative measures adopted...