Nanny Resistance Strategies
Nanny Resistance Strategies
This chapter examines the ways in which nannies accommodate and/or resist employer-imposed definitions of their role and limitations on the bond they forge with the children in their care. The analysis reveals that nannies and au pairs often sought not to reduce their childcare responsibilities but to increase them and, more important, to gain recognition for them. Their professionalization project entailed reframing their work as skilled labor and redefining themselves as third parents and as valued team members rather than as mother's helpers. Ironically, allegiance to the intensive-mothering ideology led them to forgo viewing their work as an exchange of wages for services.
Keywords: nannies, au pairs, employed-imposed definitions, children, childcare responsibilities, skilled labor, third parents, mother's helpers
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