SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Heterosexuality, Neoliberalism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1350
• Professor: Julie Dowsett

Document Summary

We have such low expectations of fathers these days: weddings, gender, and heteronormativity, father walking bride down the aisle and handing her off to the groom, olden days this meant that the father was handing her daughter (property) to the husband to now take care of, early industrial capitalism and marriage/divorce law (historical context, william blackstone on coverture, totally in husbands right to chastise his wife, the unity doctrine in canadian law, we inherited it from britain, update version of, due a series of movement, women finally got to coverture. own property, separate property regimes: better than being considered property, industrial capitalism made problems with unity doctrine clear to legislators, why did we get rid of unity doctrine, in the 1880"s there was rapid urbanization and many women and children moved to the city and the male breadwinners deserted many.