WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 75: Cultural Capital, Squaw, Wgst

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

Document Summary

Bill c-31: april 1985: brings the indian act into line with gender equality under the canadian charter of rights and. Freedoms: modiicaions to various secions of the indian act, (changes to indian status and band membership), with three major goals: 4: portrayals of women of color as inherently sexual, or insaiable encourage a form of racist sexism that dehumanizes and also legiimizes sexual violence, as anderson notes, whether princess or squaw, naive femininity is sexualized (2013, p. 274). Whose booty is it: eforts to control black women"s sexuality lie at the heart of black women"s oppression (hill collins, 2000: What has led us there? (think intersecionally and historically as well as in commercially). Is control the same thing as liberaion: what messages do young women receive, why is beyonce so heavily focused upon, as the panelists are talking, listen to the systems they address/discuss.