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1. Introduction to the VolumeSection I: Re-Thinking Family Care Work2. Almost Worried to Death: Commonalities and Dividions among American Women Caring for Children, 1850-19403. Stratification and Care Work: The Case of mothers4. Comrades en el Barrio: the cultural Practice of Co-Mothering in a Rural Paraguyan Neighborhood5. Nurturing Babies, Protecting Men: The dynamics of Women's Post-Partum Caregiving Practices5. Developing non-Oppressive Standards of Good CareSection II: Family Intersections with the State7. Health-Related Caregiving and Welfare Reform: The Choices Welfare-Reliant Women and Policy Makers Face8. Making Mothers Fungible: The Adoption and Safe Families Act and the Privatization of Foster Care9. Are Breadwinner Welfare States Friendly to Mothers and Single Mothers? Saction III: Carework in the Marketplace and Community10. Theorizing Care and Inequality11. Child Care across Sectors: A Comparison of the Work of Child Care in Three Settings12. Where Teachers Can Make a Livable Wage: Activism to Address Inequalities in the Child Care Workforce13. Activist Mothering and Community Work: Fighting Oppression in Low Income Neighborhoods14. Professional Caregivers ans Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Youth15. Social Support Organizations for Parents of Children with Cancer Associations: Local and National Problems and Prospects