{"id":221,"date":"2007-08-26T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2007-08-26T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T18:30:00","slug":"whos-your-nanny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/08\/26\/whos-your-nanny\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Your Nanny?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RtHC8g9NQ0I\/AAAAAAAAAUI\/fF7LTSG9prI\/s1600-h\/01_thumb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RtHC8g9NQ0I\/AAAAAAAAAUI\/fF7LTSG9prI\/s200\/01_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The movie version of <span style=\"font-style:italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenannydiariesmovie.com\/\">The Nanny Diaries<\/a><\/span> opened last week, and my good friend and fellow traveler Heather Hewett, Coordinator of the Women&#8217;s Studies Program at SUNY-New Paltz,  has an extremely smartypants op-ed on it all today in the <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Washington Post<\/span> titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/24\/AR2007082401208.html\"> &#8220;Who&#8217;s Your Nanny?&#8221;<\/a>.  Muses Heather, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can&#8217;t help noting how little the story has to do with reality &#8212; either with the situation of parents like me, who depend on nannies and babysitters to care for our children, or with the lives of most women who work as caregivers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> She goes on to contrast reality (the feminization of migration) with the nanny fantasies that currently abound in pop culture &#8212; not only <span style=\"font-style:italic\">The Nanny Diaries<\/span>, but a slew of so-called reality tv shows and plays.  I find Heather&#8217;s op-ed an excellent example of accessible writing that surveys the latest theory and pop thinking on the subject and makes us all think.  GO HEATHER!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie version of The Nanny Diaries opened last week, and my good friend and fellow traveler Heather Hewett, Coordinator of the Women&#8217;s Studies Program at SUNY-New Paltz, has an extremely smartypants op-ed on it all today in the Washington Post titled &#8220;Who&#8217;s Your Nanny?&#8221;. Muses Heather, I can&#8217;t help noting how little the story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21282,21626],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crossover","tag-movie-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}