SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Feminine Mystique, Jessie Bernard, Betty Friedan
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Aboriginal families: pre contact: combination of nuclear families with extended family and clan structures; gender complementarity, rather than male privilege, upon the colonial encounter, they were taught by missionaries the christian family life of male domination and female obedience, since 1867 (indian act): the church/state run indian residential schools and the separation of first nations children from their families. The 1950s nuclear family: the post war brought a dramatic increase in marriage rates and a sharp decline in the ages of first marriage, by 1950, about half the women between 20 24 in canada were marries, the scholarly celebration of this particular family form: separate sphered with breadwinning fathers and housewife mothers. Challenging families in contemporary canada: the family size has become smaller since 1971: by 2006, average of 3 people, the rise of single parent families and single person households, marriage is changing, marriage rate is in the decline, people are married later (avg: age 30) c.
