ANTH 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Motherhood Penalty, Prolactin, Sociology Of The Family
26 Feb 2017
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The ideologies, experiences & institutions of motherhood & fatherhood. The agency-communality dichotomy in north america promotes and maintains our beliefs about motherhood and fatherhood our beliefs about mothers and fathers have far reaching implications in our personal lives and our public lives. The ideology, institution & experience of motherhood: ideology: content of the motherhood stereotype. As a job it is full of contradictions. On the one hand, it is important, necessary and potentially satisfying. On the other, it has low status and is often isolating and frustrating. (mothering in the private of your own home) The commercials: ideology that mothers can do it all. This is a curious ideal considering that in canada 73% of women with children under the age of 16 are employed (stats canada 2009) A research aside: a recent study shows that internalizing some of these beliefs of intensive mothering, is correlated with negative mental health outcomes for women (rizzo et al 2013)
