Theorizing political difference in Toronto’s postwar child care movement

Susan Prentice,
Occasional Paper 8
Childcare Resource and Research Unit, 1996.

ABSTRACT:
Theorizing political difference in Toronto's postwar child care movement examines the complicated history of child care service and advocacy in Toronto between 1942-1953. It reviews how and why the State reorganized and closed down child care centres, and in so doing, how public policy and practices stigmatized child care services. The paper seeks to explain how and why different women participated in this process of reorganization, arguing that instead of seeing such women as 'dupes' or 'sell-outs', they were constrained by their institutional positions and affiliations. This story has implications for thinking about the limits and possibilities of contemporary child care organizing.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abstract
Introduction

Toronto's Postwar Child Care Movement

The Postwar Crisis: 1946
Child care in peacetime policy: 1947-1950
Therapy Enters the Nursery: 1950-51
Erosion: 1951-1954

Conclusion

End Notes
References

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