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in 1970. It provides an economic critique of day care as a function of the tension between the needs of the family and the demand for women's labor in a capitalist economy, and argues that for-profit day care is an attempt to regulate children's behavior in preparation for their future employer's
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were symbolically chained to a large "Miss
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She returned to Europe in 1958 to study the violin at the
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In October 1968 - inspired by the outrageous acts of the
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Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell
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after Florika was offered a full scholarship by the
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