HIST 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Father Knows Best, Masculinity, Outdoor Cooking
15 Nov 2017
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Main point: historically, there has been constant shifting between the superiority of motherhood and fatherhood. With the rise of romanticism and the industrial revolution, fatherhood can to be conceptualized as occurring outside of the domestic sphere, constructing fathers into. Breadwinners. fatherhood has not been a stable cultural idea over time; fatherhood is a social construction that changes over time in response to economic, political, cultural and social change. Comprehending men"s experiences as fathers and how fatherhood has been culturally constructed over time is fundamental to understanding human experience. What historians study is the social construction of fatherhood. Fatherhood is a social construction that changes over time in response to economic, political, cultural and social change: fatherhood is not a stable cultural idea. The concept of the father as the family breadwinner and the mother as the homemaker, emerges in the 19th century, victorian period: partially a result of the industrial revolution; also caused by the rise of romanticism.
