SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Working Mother, Industrial Revolution, Neoliberalism
25 Mar 2014
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The making of modern motherhood: ideologies and practices of good" motherhood from the. 1800s to the present: mothering versus motherhood, the invention of motherhood: from agriculture to urbanization, ww2 and beyond: the privatization of motherhood as full-time mothering, 1990s and beyond: intensive mothering: emerging from neo-liberalism and as a. She thinks motherhood is oppressive to women because it causes them to be selfless, etc: however she thinks mothering can be changed, mothering means raising children. Mothers didn"t waste their time on children. She would be harvesting vegetables, making clothes, cooking, gardens, looking after livestock, etc. She would probably have 8-14 children and a large number of them wouldn"t survive due to disease. She"d be pregnant most of the time. Children were an economic asset since they brought wealth to the family. Babies were hung on trees to keep babies safe from farms and etc. The village wet nurse would breast feed babies.
