WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wgst, Wartime Elections Act

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1F90
• Professor: Jenny Janke

Document Summary

Society, home economics in schools, etc: women activists of the 19th century faced harsh criticism, goals: achieve the same rights for women that men had. 1 | p a g e: two strategies for their work: maternal feminism (social feminism) and equal rights feminism [the two did not overlap] 5. maternal feminists argued their responsibilities rested not just in the improving women"s lives, but the country. 19th century separate realms of women and men (diagram) Temperance and maternal (social) feminists: two early concerns of maternal feminists: temperance and prohibition. 2. prohibition believed alcohol was evil; a moral issue: the women"s christian temperance union (wctu), founded by lelitia youmans in 1874. Equal rights feminists supporting sameness (same as men: equal rights feminists emphasized women"s sameness as men, erf did not emphasize women"s role as mothers to justify their political activism, understood certain rights (vote) as human rights.