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Babysitter : an American History.
On Friday nights many parents want to have a little fun together--without the kids. But "getting a sitter"--Especially a dependable one--rarely seems trouble-free. Will the kids be safe with "that girl"? It's a question that discomfited parents have been asking ever since th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | On Friday nights many parents want to have a little fun together--without the kids. But "getting a sitter"--Especially a dependable one--rarely seems trouble-free. Will the kids be safe with "that girl"? It's a question that discomfited parents have been asking ever since the emergence of the modern American teenage girl nearly a century ago. In Babysitter, Miriam Forman-Brunell brings critical attention to the ubiquitous, yet long-overlooked babysitter in the popular imagination and American history. Informed by her research on the history of teenage girls' culture, Forman-Brunell analyzes the |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (328 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814728536 0814728537 |