001479622 000__ 05032nam\a22008655i\4500 001479622 001__ 1479622 001479622 003__ DE-B1597 001479622 005__ 20231026035103.0 001479622 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479622 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479622 008__ 230918t20092009nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479622 020__ $$a9780814728536 001479622 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814728536.001.0001$$2doi 001479622 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)548672 001479622 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479622 0410_ $$aeng 001479622 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479622 050_4 $$aHQ769.5 .F67 2009 001479622 072_7 $$aHIS036060$$2bisacsh 001479622 08204 $$a649.10248 001479622 1001_ $$aForman-Brunell, Miriam, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479622 24510 $$aBabysitter :$$bAn American History /$$cMiriam Forman-Brunell. 001479622 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2009] 001479622 264_4 $$c©2009 001479622 300__ $$a1 online resource :$$b22 black and white illustrations 001479622 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479622 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479622 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479622 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479622 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1 The Beginnings of Babysitting -- $$t2 Suburban Parents and Sitter Unions -- $$t3 The Bobby-Soxer Babysitter -- $$t4 Making Better Babysitters -- $$t5 Boisterous Babysitters -- $$t6 Vixens and Victims -- $$t7 Sisterhoods of Sitters -- $$t8 Coming of Wage at the End of the Century -- $$t9 Quitter Sitters -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479622 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479622 520__ $$aOn Friday nights many parents want to have a little fun together-without the kids. But "getting a sitter"-especially a dependable one-rarely seems trouble-free. Will the kids be safe with "that girl"? It's a question that discomfited parents have been asking ever since the emergence of the modern American teenage girl nearly a century ago. In Babysitter, Miriam Forman-Brunell brings critical attention to the ubiquitous, yet long-overlooked babysitter in the popular imagination and American history.Informed by her research on the history of teenage girls' culture, Forman-Brunell analyzes the babysitter, who has embodied adults' fundamental apprehensions about girls' pursuit of autonomy and empowerment. In fact, the grievances go both ways, as girls have been distressed by unsatisfactory working conditions. In her quest to gain a fuller picture of this largely unexamined cultural phenomenon, Forman-Brunell analyzes a wealth of diverse sources, such as The Baby-sitter's Club book series, horror movies like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, urban legends, magazines, newspapers, television shows, pornography, and more.Forman-Brunell shows that beyond the mundane, understandable apprehensions stirred by hiring a caretaker to "mind the children" in one's own home, babysitters became lightning rods for society's larger fears about gender and generational change. In the end, experts' efforts to tame teenage girls with training courses, handbooks, and other texts failed to prevent generations from turning their backs on babysitting. 001479622 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479622 546__ $$aIn English. 001479622 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023) 001479622 650_0 $$aBabysitting$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century. 001479622 650_4 $$aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century$$2sh. 001479622 653__ $$aAmerican. 001479622 653__ $$aTeenaged. 001479622 653__ $$ababysitter. 001479622 653__ $$afaces. 001479622 653__ $$amany. 001479622 653__ $$amini-mother. 001479622 653__ $$atemptress. 001479622 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001479622 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tNew York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$z9783110706444 001479622 7760_ $$cprint$$z9780814727591 001479622 852__ $$bebk 001479622 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814728536$$zOnline Access 001479622 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1479622$$pGLOBAL_SET 001479622 912__ $$a978-3-11-070644-4 New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001479622 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001479622 912__ $$aEBA_CL_HICS 001479622 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001479622 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001479622 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_HICS 001479622 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001479622 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001479622 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001479622 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001479622 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001479622 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001479622 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001479622 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001479622 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001479622 980__ $$aBIB 001479622 980__ $$aEBOOK 001479622 982__ $$aEbook 001479622 983__ $$aOnline