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Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | 2012 Romero Prize
Nominations for 2012 Lora Romero Publication Prize for the best-published first book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | Community Partnership Grants
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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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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