‘She lets me go out once a week’: mothers' strategies for obtaining ‘personal’ time and space
- 1 December 1998
- Vol. 30 (4) , 321-330
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.1998.tb00077.x
Abstract
Summary This paper focuses on the need for relief care and its provision through babysitting and crèches in Sheffield. The analysis demonstrates the importance of this previously neglected form of care, and highlights the role played by women's networks in shaping a class‐differentiated geography of relief care.This publication has 32 references indexed in Scilit:
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