Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Misogyny, Northern Ontario, Surrogacy

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1020E
• Professor: Laura Cayen

Document Summary

Large number of indigenous people were sterilized by the province (1988)- brian. Outcast mothers and surrogates: racism and reproduction politics in the nineties (1993)- angela davis. Reproductive justice briefing book: a primer on reproduction justice and social change. Based on belief that undesirable traits (social and physical) were passed on genetically to offspring. Alberta"s sexual sterilization act was instituted in 1928, repealed in 1972. During that time it is estimated that 4725 cases were approved by alberta"s. Eugenics board (99% of case put before the board) of which 2822 were record as having been performed (stote,2012; historyofrights. ca) Indians and metis who represented only 2. 5 percent of alberta"s population, accounted for 25 percent of those sterilized (savage p. 143) Indigenous women were disproportionately targeted for sterilization and once approved by the eugenics board were more likely to undergo the procedure (stote, 2012) ice (stote, 2012) 1971 to 1974, 580 indigenous women were sterilized in northern ontario (stote.