WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lowell Mill Girls, Intersectionality, Racialization
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No official practice anymore, but we still have slavery logic. Settler colonialism: people from colonizing countries become the population. 1st women"s right convention- seneca falls, ny, 1848. Idea germinated at anti-slavery convention 1840, they were angry. Fredrick douglas: abolitionist, orator, author, humans rights advocate. Born into slavery, escaped, known for eloquence in speech when speaking against slavery. Spoke in support of resolution for women"s suffrage. They didn"t want women to vote: role reversal, violation of gender norms. Women are in the world for love and motherhood" implying ideas of gender essentialism, that politics is too messy for women and it will effect the family, and in turn, the nation. Through the women"s rights activism, they didn"t address issues effecting women in the workplace. Long hours, overcrowding, little time to eat, little time off. Leaders in labour movement, organization for worker"s rights. Sojourner truth: ain"t i a women?" speech @ akron, ohio 1851. Women is not a monolithic category (intersectionality)
