SOSC 1350 Study Guide - Coverture, Child Custody, Parenting

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

Document Summary

A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. Tenneva jordan: the family as socially constructed. Women are no longer part of men"s property and liberal feminist state that it is a positive thing: societal standards for a good mother vis-a-vis a. Mothering and fathering are very different (like good mother or unfit mother) Mothering, is a wide variety of behavior, for good fathers they are associated with the role of providing for the family. Fathering a child is just the creation of the child (sperm and egg) for mothers, its more judgmental: the ideology of (white, middle-class, heterosexual) motherhood generally the importance of mothers changes in the political and economic conditions. Child rearing is part of a women"s identity. Women"s labour outside the home is required then its not emphasized but if labour outside home is not required then it is emphasized.