Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 Who Cares? The Problem of Childcare for Working Parents 21
2 From Women's Liberation to New Ways to Work: Feminist Labor Activism and the Making of Working Parenthood 61
3 From Equality to Diversity: Working Parents in the Public Sector 95
4 Making the Business Case: The Rise of the "Family-Friendly" Private Sector 119
5 Becoming a Working Parent: Labor Intensification and the Pursuit of "Having it All" 161
Conclusion 201
Notes 213
Bibliography 265
Index 279

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Sarah E. Stoller is a historian and freelance writer. Her writing on care work, feminism, gender, and motherhood as well as popular culture and the crisis of higher education has appeared in Slate, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Aeon Magazine, Salon, Jezebel, the Washington Post, and History Workshop Journal.

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