SOC275H5 Chapter 6: Chapter-6-The-Gendered-Family
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Chapter 6: the gendered family: gender at the heart of the. In the 1980s and 1990s, north americans believed that families were in crisis because of the increasing rate of divorce, teen pregnancies, single parenthood, latchkey children, and gays and lesbians demanding the right to get married. Canadians were concerned about the fate of the family in the modern world. Because of this concern, the real women of canada (an organization) was founded in 1983. According to the real women and other social conservatives, a traditional nuclear family was disappearing because of a permissive society and welfare state. Sharp division of labor (female is a fulltime housewife, and the male is the primary provider and authority) Before, there were laws that restricted divorce, repressed the women"s right to choose abortion, and kept a heterosexual norm in the family life. The debate about family values and its changes are depended on three things: misplaced nostalgia, feminism, and misreading of history.
