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Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Quaker women in humanitarian and social action: faith, learning, and the authority of experience.- 3. Communities of Care: Working-class women's welfare activism, 1920-1970s.- 4. The housewife as expert: re-thinking the experiential expertise and welfare activism of housewives' associations in England, 1960 -1980.- 5. Childminders and the limits of mothering as experiential expertise, England c. 1948-2000.- 6. Daddy knows best: professionalism, paternalism, and the state in mid-twentieth century British child diswelfare experiences.- 7. Fire, Fairs, and Dragonflies: The Writings of Gifted Children and Age-Bound Expertise.- 8. Claiming and curating experiential expertise at the children's telephone helpline, ChildLine UK, 1986-2006.- 9. Justifying Experience, Changing Expertise: From protest to authenticity in anglophone mad voices in the mid-twentieth century.- 10. Qualified by virtue of experience? Professional youth work
