Feminist Challenges to the Social Structure and Sex Roles
- 1 September 1979
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychology of Women Quarterly
- Vol. 4 (1) , 16-31
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1979.tb00696.x
Abstract
A social-psychological and historical context for understanding contemporary sex roles, fertility, parenting, and the family is provided by reviewing origins and objectives of the Women's Movement. Feminist efforts to change social structures affecting women's choice of roles and fertility require continued attention. Increased voluntary childlessness seriously challenges the concept of motherhood as central to adult feminine identity and legitimization of choice in whether or not to become a parent provides a new context for studying women, sex roles, fertility, and their complex relationships to the social structure. Continued challenges to premises, methodologies, and conclusions of such research are urged.Keywords
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