SOCI 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Masculinity, Artificial Insemination, Surrogacy
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More or less constricted to marriage and/or bloodlines. Rise of reproductive tech = deconstructing families (surrogacy, frozen embryos, sperms) Role of motherhood as protectors of the family. Ideal family restricts, oppresses, and/or regulates normative family forms. State provides all the perks, benefits, and advantages of marriages. Romantic relationships are no longer framed for economic relationships. Gendered norms: infidelity and breadwinning are more masculine traits. Failure to recognize that identities are malleable due to the structural constraints. Tangle of pathology - lag of families is due to matriarchal single-parent homes. Blame her : it"s her fault for recreating poor families. The gendered family: the transformation of family life. Strong correlation bw the amount of housework and childcare a woman does to her status. Belief: man helps woman in domestic sphere like woman helps man financially: it"s very nice but not necessary bc each has their own role in society.
