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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Stoltzfus, Emilie S. "Citizen, Mother, Worker: Public Provision of Child Care, 1945-1965," History Department, Claremont Graduate University, January 1999.
This dissertation engages current discussions on social citizenship and gender by examining arguments for publicly subsidized childcare after World War II. Within the context of federal postwar policy, the study presents original archival and oral history research to describe how working mothers in Cleveland, Ohio, Washington, D.C., and California placed a call for tax-subsidized childcare on the public agenda. Despite growing female employment and the success of California parents in gaining state support, two decades after the war childcare remained a private concern. Public involvement came not as a universal social right of all parents but as a selected response to professionally defined needs of some.
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