WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wartime Elections Act, Wgst, Indian Act
10 Dec 2013
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Military voter"s act, 1917 wartime elections act, & 1918 women"s franchise act. Society, home economics in schools, etc: goals: achieve the same rights for women that men had- feminists took two approaches to this end: maternal feminism. 19th century realms of women and men. (diagram) Private realm: women"s world of volunteer work, church home, family, unpaid employment (informal power. Public realm: men"s world politics, paid employment, high education (formal power) Temperance and maternal (social) feminism: early concern of maternal fems: temperance & prohibition, the women"s christian temperance union (wctu), founded by letitia youmans in 1874, was the national organization of. Prohibition believed alcohol was the downfall of the family unit; a moral issue. Blamed crime, violence in the home, political corruption and family breakdown on alcohol women who were fighting for the banning of alcohol. Getting the vote was not in the early cards for maternal feminists. 1917 military voter"s act: vote to women nurses serving in the war.
