It is everybody's interest that the current way in which the care of children is organized should be completely changed.

Women have always had the main responsibility for childcare, with a result that as a sex they have been divorced from the social, economic, and political power. In this important and fascinating book, Caroline New and Miriam David analyse the historical and social background to women's role as carers and expose the myths which have brough about this sexual division of labour.

The authors discuss feminist and socialist attitudes to childcare, the politics of privatized childcare, existing provision and possible alternatives, putting forward fundamental strategies for change.