Reader. Getis, Victoria L. & Maris A. Vinovskis. 1992."History of Child Care in the United States Before 1950," pp. 185-205 in Child Care in Context: Cross-Cultural Perspectives edited by Michael E. Lamb, Kathleen J. Sternberg, Carl-Philip Hwang & Anders G. Broberg. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Reader. Berry, Mary Francis. 1993."Mother Care, Other Care," pp. 65-84 in The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother by Mary Francis Berry. New York: Viking.
Reader. Moss, Peter. 1996."A Man's Place is in the Nursery," Nursery World, June 27: 14.
Reader. Cameron, Claire. 1997."Men Wanted," Nursery World, May 15: 12-13.

Oct 6 Maternal Thinking
Oct 8 Men in Child Care
Oct 10 Review for Midterm Exam

• How have parental roles and expectations changed throughout time? How do parental roles differ in various cultural contexts?

• How have changing attitudes regarding women's work contributed to the establishment of out-of-home child care?

• In what ways were 19th century kindergartens and nurseries exclusionary? Whose standards shaped the ideology perpetuated by such schools?

• How do societial views regarding day care perpetuate gender, racial, and ethnic inequality?

• How might male child care workers benefit children? How may men themselves benefit from working in child care centers?

• Why is the entrance of men into traditionally female-dominated professions essential to gender equality?

• What are some of the expected disadvantages of including more male workers in child care centers?

• How might the field of child care attract more men?

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