SOCI 2P21 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Natalism, Antinatalism
8 Jun 2015
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Pronatalist (increased fertility) policies: related to restrictions on contraception, abortion, etc. (i. e. example of russia, strict anti abortion and contraceptive laws, incentives/support for pregnancy/infancy/child, quebec: low cost public day care. This has been challenged by comparative, historical research: ex: foraging economies, relative equality and flexibility in productive and reproductive work, myth of patriarchy man the hunter (problematized by research on foraging economies, however, foraging diet based on gathering (the woman"s role), there is evidence of female hunters and male child carers, cross cultural variation in constructions of biological roles, ex: rituals of pregnancy/childbirth for male partners of pregnant women (couvade, non maternal breastfeeding (wet nursing, historical scholarship suggests that the idea of patriarchy is created by the shift to agriculturalism/industrialism/colonialism, which created public and private spheres (work/non work male/female, similar to arguments made by f. engels: agriculturalism/industrialism/colonialism increased gendered inequality within households and increased class based inequality between households.
