WGS200Y5 Lecture Notes - Puritans, George Brown College, Adrienne Rich

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9 May 2012

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UTM

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Women and Gender Studies

Course

WGS200Y5

Professor

Karen Ruffle

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Institutionalized aspects of the family: economic, political, religious, social. The family and gender: the marital unit: gendering marriage, divorce, custody, childcare. Motherhood: social construction of motherhood, becoming a mother, ideologies of motherhood, changing motherhood [canada, women over 40, critiquing motherhood, feminist critiques of the family as a patriarchal institution, introducing the family religious political sociallove. Patterned around marriage monogamy: two people exclusively to form economic unit and children. Polygamy: a man takes more than one wife. Grandparents (or other family members) raising children. Institionalized aspects of the family: family as economic institution. Fredrich engels the origin of the family, private property and the state 1884. Men are in charge or producing the goods for the family while the women stays home and takes care of the children and house. Engels and the rise of the patriarchal family. Mother right-power that women had was not valuable. Private propertywomen lose control of property due to gens.

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1. Because many men traditionally have not produced a lot of household commodities

a.	they are more likely to reduce hours of work after a decrease in their wage rate

b. their income effect is likely to be smaller than that of women

c. they can more easily substitute leisure for household production

d.	they are less likely to reduce hours of work after a decrease in their wage rate

2. One of the main changes in the typical family in the United States over the past 30-40 years has been

a. non-marital births have decreased appreciably

b. marriage has declined while cohabitation has risen

c. single-parent families have fallen considerably

d. median age at first marriage has decreased

3. A single mother is currently paying childcare cost of $10 an hour and she works 8 hours a day. The government then decides to provides child care at a constant $80 a day. The effect of this event will be to:

a. cause the mother to work more hours

b. cause the mother to work less hours

c. cannot tell without knowing which effect dominates: the income or substitution effect

d. cause the mother to work the same hours

4. Which statement correctly describes the relationship between Marriage and Poverty?

a. poverty as a whole can be solved by people just having children

b. Children who grow up in a dual parent household are significantly more likely to experience poverty

c. Children who grow up in a dual parent household are significantly less likely to experience poverty

d. poverty as a whole can be solved by people just staying married

5. The real determining "discriminatory" factor in higher education today is

a.	"out of state" status

How might legal definitions of the family conflict with personal definitions of the family?

At times, institutions in our society define family in ways that might narrow or expand the concept.

Can you identify and write about a situation or perhaps a specific type of family that might be devalued by another institution or by society in general?

Write an original post of 300 words and one peer responses of at least 100 words.

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How might legal definitions of the family conflict with personal definitions of the family?

At times, institutions in our society define family in ways that might narrow or expand the concept.

Can you identify and write about a situation or perhaps a specific type of family that might be devalued by another institution or by society in general?

Write an original post of 300 words and one peer responses of at least 100 words.

Could you email me it [email protected]

Thank you

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WGS200Y5 Lecture Notes - Puritans, George Brown College, Adrienne Rich

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