FNF 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Modern History, Infant Mortality, Ethnocentrism
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Contemporary diversities: the changing face of intimacies and family forms. We may now increasingly be living our lives in ways that are different from any other that humanity has previously known. This is the post-modern, or post paradigmatic age, characterized by intense pluralization, individuation and a multiciplicty of choices, unknown of any era. (simon, 1996) The social, political and institutional reforms of the 20th century have opened up the possibility for all social identities and family forms to be renegotiated and contested. Deconstructed gender, marriage and patriarchy power relations. Women were released from the fear that sexuality was bound to repetitive pregnancies, infant mortality and death caused by childbirth. Severed old ties to the integration of sex reproduction and kinship. For the first time individuals were allowed to think about their intimate and familial arrangements within the conte(cid:454)t of lifest(cid:455)le, ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d the politi(cid:272)s of (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d desi(cid:396)e .
