Womens Studies
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Dr. Mary Tuominen
| Affiliation | Faculty | | Title | Professor of Sociology/Anthropology and Women's Studies | | Email | tuominen@denison.edu |
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Dr. Mary Tuominen currently serves as Professor and Chair of Sociology/Anthropology and Professor of Women's Studies at Denison. Her research focuses on the politics and economics of women's care work -- in particular the racial and gendered organization of paid child care work and the devaluation of care work. In We Are Not Babysitters: Family Child Care Providers Redefine Work and Care ( Rutgers University Press, 2003) she explores the daily lives and work of twenty child care providers of diverse race, ethnicity, immigrant status, and social class. These women's experiences enable us to understand the changing gendered and racialized meanings of community, family, work, and care. Dr. Tuominen's current project is a community-based action research project exploring self-advocacy and political mobilization within a multi-racial alliance of child care providers.
