WGS250H5 Study Guide - Nuclear Family, Essentialism, Fertility Clinic

• School: UTM
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS250H5
• Professor: Karen Schwartz

Document Summary

Essentialism example: gender is a belief of set characteristics. Incorrect: all people who are members of an economic family are also members of a census family. Economic contributions in household of the 1800"s: less birth"s, having children cost more. Jesuir missionaries attempted to eradicate: women owning property. Feminist critiques on notion of virginity, virginity is considered a morally quick fix. Edholm"s most important way families defined: social relations. Reproducing cultures and traditions common practice of western weddings. Last week review: dorothy roberts- critiques reproductive hierarchies, ginsburg & rapp- stratified reproduction (historical and cultural implication, pronatalism and protonatalism, history of abortion rights, feminist ethics. Local and global implication: reproduction rights seen as women problem. Pronatalism: encourages people to have children in general. Assisted reproduction: medically assisted conception without sexual intercourse, procedure where gametes are manipulated for the purpose of creating an embryo. Sperm donation and insemination in-vitro fertilization and egg donation. Surrogacy and gestational carriers: presumes infertility, heteronormative (reproduces the model)