Aboriginal original family structure
nuclear family with extended clan structure, concept of family ties
Gender complimentary-tasks assigned based on gender
Colonization
male dominated- separation of work based on industrialization and urbanization, men no longer spent time at home
“breadwinner”
Temperance movement
fuelled by the ruling all earning belonged to the male head
Residential schools
assimilation into society
Now we are paying for it
SNAF
post WWII, tax incentives to have families and get married, could survive on singular income,
Current state of canadian family
child poverty high in single mother and aboriginal families
Gendered marriage
view of marriage is gendered,
bridal showers
weddings cost 24 000
His & Hers marriages
Gendering children
“it’s a boy” announcements
role models
attatchement to mother
Indian Act
Federal legislation in 1876, revised periodically since then, that governs and defines registered Indians (First Nations) and their reserves
LICO
Low Income Cut Off: boundary established by statistics canada that serves as Canada’s unofficial measure of poverty. Child poverty- most at risk in aboriginal or single mother families
matrilocal
residing in the women’s family instead of the man’s-lots of aboriginal groups ran like that
New Woman
feminine ideal that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century, along with feminist activism and theory, The New Woman would be independent, educated, and assertive, By early 20th century commentators were concerned about the New Woman as a symbol of societal decline
Race suicide
late 19th century/early 20th concept that argued on the basis of evolutionary theory that the white race was in decline; a particular cause, proponent argued, was the declining birth rate among middle and upper class white women and the rampant fertility of poor whites and racial others
Second Shift
housework performed after putting in a workday, or more broadly, the responsibility fir the job of housework in addition to paid employment
Separation of Spheres
a 19h century ideology that distinguished between private and public in a new way, separating the world of family and love from the world of employment, politics, and competition. Women were to be protected from the latter by their confinement in the private realm, while men could find respite there from the hurly-burly of their activities in the public realm
temperance movement
women into the workforce
alcohol laws
religion and womens rights finally aligned for once