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SOCI 216: Sociology of Families (Rev. 1 & 2) Report a Broken Link

Unit 2: Indigenous Family Forms in Pre-Colonial North Anerica (Turtle Island)

Baskin, C. (1982). Women in Iroquois society. Journal of Canadian Studies, 4(2), 42–46.

Unit 3: The Patriarchal Family and Its Discontents (Keys to Understanding the Present)

Cooke, L. P. (2018). The pathology of patriarchy and family inequalities. In N. R. Cahn, J. Carbone, L. Fields DeRose, & W. Bradford Wilcox (Eds.), Unequal family lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas (pp. 237–260). Cambridge University Press.

Unit 7: Families and Social Reproduction

Ferguson, S. (2016). Social reproduction: What’s the big idea? Pluto Press.

Unit 8: Indigneous Families Today

Sunseri, L. (2008). Sky woman lives on: Contemporary examples of mothering the nation. Canadian Woman Studies, 26(4), 21–25.

Unit 9: Immigrant Families/Parenting at a Distance

Hochschild, A. R., with Devi, S. U., & Isaksen, L. (2013). Children left behind. In So, how’s the family?: And other essays (pp. 128–142). University of California Press.
Bernhard, J. K., Goldring, L., Young, J., Berinstein, C., & Wilson, B. (2007). Living with precarious legal status in Canada: Implications for the well-being of children and families. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 24(2), 101–114.

Unit 10: Societies Without Families and the Multiplication of Care: The Queer, Trans, Feminist, and Anarchist Proposal

Weeks, K. (2021). Abolition of the family: The most infamous feminist proposal. Feminist Theory, 1–21.
O’Brien, ME. (2019, October 15). Communizing care. Pinko, 1.  
O’Brien, ME. (2019). To abolish the family: The working-class family and gender liberation in capitalist development. Endnotes, 5, 361–417.
Lewis, S. A. (2022). Mothering against motherhood: Doula work, xenohospitality and the idea of the momrade. Feminist Theory, 1–18.

Film/Video/Podcast Analysis

Butler, J. (2017, February 8). UCL Housman lecture 2017: Kinship trouble in The Bacchae [Video]. YouTube.
Coontz, S. (2011, January 4). On marriage [Video]. YouTube.
Hochschild, A. (2016, December 5). The second shift [Video]. YouTube.
Hubbard, T. (Director), Hubbard T. (Co-Writer), & Adams, B. A. (Co-Writer). (2017, May, 2). Birth of a family (Season 1, Episode 7) [TV series episode]. CBC Docs Pov. CBC Gem.
Seckinger, B. (Director). (2017). Hippie family values [Film]. New Day Films.
Weeks, K., O’Brien, M.E., Jaffe, S., & Lewis, S. (2020, May 29). Abolish the family! | Red May 2020 [Video]. YouTube.
Williams, G. (Host). (2020, March 25). Visible queerness: Queer kinship & chosen family [Audio podcast, episode 2]. In /Queer.
Yoshizawa, A. (Director). (2016). All our father’s relations [Film]. Right Relations.

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