WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wgst, Essentialism, Waves
10 Feb 2017
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The history of feminism waves of feminism. 1st, 2nd, & 3rd wave waves are, by nature, highly visible and change things forever. Curing social ills of society (viewing alcohol & tobacco as problems) The vote for women is good for the moral well-being of society: women as mothers were superior in morality & as mothers of the notion, only women could nurture & uplift the morals of society. Property rights for women could mean that women could be economically secure. Suffrage movement was essentialist: seeing all women the same (i. e. as moral, as mothers) Idealized women"s participation in political life as women" (good, caring, nurturing) who would improve the ethics of political processes. Predominantly a white, middle-class, liberal feminist movement based on privilege. Those who benefited from the status quo. Contentions that voting was : un-lady-like, too complicated for women to understand, exposed women to the evils of the public/political world.
