WMST Chapter 6 Flashcards
(28 cards)
Aboriginal
A member of one of three indigenous groups (First Nations, Inuit, and Metis) recognized by the Canadian Constitution.
breadwinner
An individual whose earnings support dependents. Always been gendered.
child poverty
The phenomenon whereby those under the age of 18 live below the low-income line established by the LICO.
clan
A group of people united by kinship, whether actual or symbolic. Basic social unit for societal roles and responsibilities in First Nations societies before European contact.
common-law marriage
A system of customary marriage by which people who present themselves as spouses and fulfill certain criteria- therefore entitled to the rights of legally wedded spouses.
Divorce Act
Federal legislation introduced in 1968 and revised in 1985, governing the provision of divorce in Canada.
emotion work
Performed in the private sphere. The work performed to maintain emotional ties and harmony, to produce comfort and ease into family members.
extended family
Kin beyond the nuclear family, whether they share the same household or not.
gender complementarity
The idea that men and women have distinct talents, characters roles, and spheres of influence that are not ranked hierarchically.
homophily
The tendency to bond with individuals like oneself particularly in terms of sex, gender, and sexual orientation.
Indian Act
Federal legislation of 1876, revised periodically since then, that governs and defines registered “Indians” (First Nations) and their reserves.
intensive mothering
Sharon Hays: a sense of mothering ideals and behaviours that emphasize the mother’s primary responsibility for the child; the desirerability of full time mothering.
Low-Income Cut Off (LICO)
A boundary established by Statistics Canada that serves as Canada’s unofficial measure of poverty. Based on family size and size of community residence.
marriage premium
The additional health, wellbeing, and economic benefits supposedly enjoyed by married people relative to the unmarried.
matrilocal
Determining the residence by female kinship, rather than by male. Married family would reside in a women’s family.
New Women
Independent, assertive and educated. A feminine ideal that remerged at the end of the nineteenth century alond with feminism, activism and theory.
nuclear families
20th century term describing a family structure composed of a couple and their children. It has never been universal.
Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)
Post-divorce situation describing a situation in which one parent manipulates the child so that the child unreasonably shuns the other parent, or even makes false accusations of maltreatment.
quality child care
Care that provides
- trained, skilled or certified staff
- healthy interactions btwn caregivers and children
- stimulating environments among other things
- few children per cargiver
- proper obervance of health and safety
race suicide
Late 19th century/early 20th century concept that argued on the basis of evolutionary theory that the “white race” was on decline. due to lower birth rates of the upperclass and middleclass.
residential schools
Founded in the 19th century in Canada to help “assimilate” Aboriginal children.
Section 12(1)b
A section of the Indian Act that removed Indian status from any First Nations woman who married a non-First Nations man. (1951-1985)
second shift
Housework performed after putting in a workday, or more broadly the responsibility of housework on top of paid employment.
separation of spheres
19th century ideology that distinguished between private and public in a new way. Separated family and love from the world of employment. Women were in the private and men were in the public realm.
