ABSTRACT
In the heyday of second-wave feminism, activists envisioned a world in which child rearing had become completely socialized, making traditional motherhood a thing of the past. More than three decades have passed since feminists first demanded free, twenty-four-hour-a-day child care, yet no society has come close to fulfilling such a utopian (some would say dystopian) vision. As the preceding chapters have documented, progress toward child care has been slow, the result of both restructuring and specific problems that appear to be endemic to the notion itself. At the same time, feminists’ position on child care has also changed.
