cover image The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother

The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother

Mary Frances Berry. Penguin Books, $18 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-14-023360-5

Berry's absorbing study of American child care argues that men must assume an equal share of child rearing if women are to pursue careers. (Mar.)