SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nuclear Family, Neoliberalism, Racialization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 525
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Racialization of motherhood, natural close to nature, and racialized people are also represented as close to this idea as well. Barbie is single, carefree, but the on barbie that comes with a accessory is a baby and is a peruvian barbie. The lack of talking about fatherhood says something in itself, father are portrayed as lost and dumb e. g. simpsons. Reproduce strict norms of good motherhood, but we do see deviations all the time. Gilmore girls: single parent, no nuclear family, the mother is the likable protagonist, celebration of single motherhood, the daughter and mom have more of a friendship, celebration of the mother daughter bond, single motherhood is usually pathologized. Lifestyle magazine: work to reproduce the idea that a good mom is in a economically stable relationship. Black women"s bodies as these producing, labour9ing bodies, producing babies that would be workers (slave trade, current neoliberal economy), while white women"s bodies produce life.