GWST 2513 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Natalie Suleman, Sociology Of The Family, Omnipotence
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* causel power god making a stone he csnnot lift not all powerful. * you can have concepts that are too narrow or wide. * god is a necessary being meaning that god cannot annihilate himself if ne can he is a contigent being. * noo such thing as a necessary being. Motherhood: is the institution, which favors society, a social construct. Movies, kate plus 8, 19 and counting, octomom. The church and the government were the institution of motherhood. This institutional motherhood carried on for 100yrs more than 3 whole entire generations. Immense resilience of aboriginal ppl is proof of why aboriginal identity is not erased. Direct contact children were to seek was out of balance, they were physically abused. Mothering consisted of who was doing the mothering in first nation ideology and history. Grandparents rearing children because of age and everyone else was engaged in creation of food. Elders held very high status in rearing children.