SOCIOL 2PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Collective Responsibility, Visible Minority, Transnationalism
14 Nov 2017
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Continuation of co-op housing: diana worts: co-op residents provided both concrete and socio-economic support. Helping with childcare, food, swapping skills like hairdressing, helping with medical emergencies. Kids had other kids they could play with. Emotional support from other women, safety net, spiritual family : the practical and socio-emotional support of other women challenged the privatized nature of family life and caregiving. From dating to marriage, living together, moving forward in relationship. How men and women were conforming to normative expectations of how men and women should behave in heterosexual relationships: power dynamics. Initiated asking women out, defining relationship: women pursuing cohabitation because of economic circumstances. Can"t afford rent or their own home so they initiate living together. Women having low wages compared to men. Saw cohabitation not necessarily as an alternative to marriage, but rather as a pre- cursor to marriage: engagement determined by men.
