SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Child Benefit, Consumerism, Nuclear Family
9 Jan 2016
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Fox, chapter 7 sexuality and the post-war domestic revival" by. Mary louise adams: the trouble with normal. Discourses that reinforced heterosexuality at the time. 16 some cash: family allowance gave mothers with children under the age of. Reinforced by popular culture, consumerism, economic prosperity, fear of communism (cold war) People who did not conform were distrusted and investigated: hollywood movies, working class families, immigrant families (couldn"t afford it, very much pressured by groups to conform, pressure to conform was connected to a sense of canadian citizenship. Significance of kinsey sex reports with over 5000 men: first report 1948 full of stats about sex, based on interviews, 1953 same thing but for females, interviews with 6000, problems with the report: women. Based on white people: for the first time you get people thinking about sex from a, provided a challenge to how people thought about sex and scientific perspective sexuality. Coontz: the way we never were, marriage, a history.
