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1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. “A proper independent spirit”: The Vancouver City Crèche, 1909–20 25
7. “Self help is to be encouraged to the fullest extent”: Working Mothers and the State in the Interwar Years 48
8. “It takes real mothers and real homes to make real children”: Child Care Debates during and after the Second World War 74
9. “The working mother is here to stay”: The Making of Provincial Child Care Policy in the 1960s 101
10. “Talkin’ Day Care Blues”: Feminist Child Care Battles in the 1960s and 1970s 126
11. “The feeling lingers that day care just isn’t nice”: Provincial and National Child Care Politics since the Mid-1970s 152
12. Conclusion 178
13. Notes 187
14. Bibliography 243
15. Index 261