Shadow mothers: nannies, au pairs, and the micropolitics of mothering/
Cameron Lynne Macdonald.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
- xiv, 272 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: childcare on trial -- Mother-employers: blanket accountability at home and at work -- Nannies on the market -- "They're too poor and they all smoke": ethnic logics and childcare hiring decisions -- Managing a home-centered childhood: intensive mothering by proxy -- Creating shadow mothers -- The "third-parent" ideal -- Nanny resistance strategies -- Partnerships: seeking a new model -- Untangling the mother-nanny knot.