WGST 1808 Lecture 10: Women's movements in Canada - March 20 - Lecture 10

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Debra Graham

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Women"s movements in canada - march 20 - lecture 10. She was born in the us and she was a free african american woman and she immigrated to. She doesn"t fit (cid:448)ery (cid:449)ell into history (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause she (cid:272)rossed (cid:271)oarders and is (cid:271)la(cid:272)k. She went to university and got a law degree at 60 years old. She was the 1st black woman to cast a vote in a federal election in the us. Woman with property voted in quebec elections during the 1830s. In 1960 is when native women could cast their vote. The first female judge in canada was in 1916 (emily murphy) She had a lot of family connections and was white and privileged. Had written some book and it turns out she was a racist. She was elected to join the senate, but she was not considered to be a person under the law, but she changed this.