SOCC25H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Domestic Worker, Transnationalism, Hegemonic Masculinity
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Look at the way family formations change or transform or maintained when members of both extended and nuclear family move around. Flows of migration pull these members apart from one another the duration of separation and resiliency of the family when this happens. I"m here, but i"m there: the meanings of. Latina transnational motherhood, gender & society 11(5): 548-71. Start out with the assumption that motherhood is something society sees as symbolic. It is an important social relationship, and part of a functional society. Some of these attachments and meanings are said to be disrupted by transnationalism. On the one hand, there is a middle class modeling of motherhood, predicated on the nuclear family, hegemonic masculinity, and a stay at home mom. This middle-class ideal is not surprising to us; the white-anglo norm where the mother and child are isolated at home together.
