SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jessie Bernard, Nuclear Family, Wage Labour
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Soc275h5 lecture 4: the gendered family: gender at the heart of home. Aboriginal families: pre-contact: combination of nuclear families with extended family and clan structures; The indian act had disenfranchised many women and children: residential schools: residential school experience was devastating for the entire. Violence was displayed in these residential schools as they were separated from their parents, disciplined etc. They received substandard education and were poorly nourished. Students were beaten and tortured for speaking their native languages, and many were sexually abused by the staff members at these schools. New woman": women"s new ability to vote exemplified the era of new woman, the independent modern woman who did not need to depend upon a man. When women began to leave the home during first and second. World wars to enter the labour force, join unions, many felt that employed women were. Agrarian households (farm families before industrialization): agrarian households were unlike the nuclear families.
