SOC367H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Uterus, Family Values, Medicalization
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Motherhood mandate: basically pushing all women should be others. Intensive mothering: when women gives birth to baby, she should just sacrifice and child-centered approach. Intensive mothering: produce and reinforce proper motherhood : medicalization infertility is issued and needs to be treated by the medicine. Social norms includes biological reproduction; traditional family values based on. Middle-class women, by affording medical treatment, they are able to enter social world and enable to achieve those social norms. Their issues are not recognized (low-class women"s infertility: motherhood ideologies + merdicalization. Medical treatments (cid:224) way out of my league; restricted by their economic conditions and costs a lot of money to make an appointment. Pursue social mothering (e. g. stepmothering; divert care to their family) Use of nonmedical (alternative change, e. g. nutritional) Pay attention to the institutions ex) medical institutions. Over seven years, tried the medicine and drugs: uterus out terrible experience, she couldn"t do something, giving her family that she can"t create.
