SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms, Liberal Feminism, Law Society
12 Feb 2018
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The women"s movement and shifting conception of equality. Lecture outline: 1st wave women"s movement, equality and rights. Formal equality and bill of rights 1960. Andrews v. law society of bc 1989. Waves: traditional way of discussing history of women"s movement, each of these waves is said to describe a period of intense activism and social change. 1st wave: late 19th - early 20th century. 1st wave (late 19th & early 20th century: goal. Basic political and legal rights for women: conservative. Rights based on natural role of women as wife and mother maternal feminism) -> essential. Racist: abolishes unity doctrine , right to own property, right to vote. Achieved for non-aboriginal women circa late 1910s: right to sit in the senate (persons case), edwards v canada 1928. Supreme court rules in 1928 that women are not persons. But overturned on appeal by the privy council in 1929. Equality and rights: liberalism is based on the idea of abstract rights .
