SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Age Of Enlightenment, Stephanie Coontz, Asteroid Family
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Modern ideas that developed and shaped family. Cott- ideas that developed around the home. Tamara h, working class families: the idea that marriage should be based on love. Martin luther rejected notion of celibacy as superior. He tried to elevate the status of husband and role of housewife. Luther talks about responsibilities to each other vs rights. Mother should breast feed their own children (2) The french and american revolutions (18th): equality and the pursuit of happiness as human rights. Equality becomes a concept , reaction of feudalism, rejection of authority. Part of the french rev also, were criticism of patriarchy and women"s inequality. American rev- right to pursuit of happiness . The cult of domesticity and gender as separate spheres . Notion of home as a refuge: economic change: the development of an industrial- capitalist economy (an important context) between.
