WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chrystos, Wgst, Patrilineality
2 Feb 2018
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Europeans imposed their gender roles and idea of gender. Brought in a series of stereotypes and theories of white people. Stereotypes and colonialism: chrystos i am not your princess . Poem directly speaks about stereotypes of natives and inuit people. Constantly changing with place and time (stereotypes fit a political need) Early voyageurs show the importance of intermarriage, insisting on whitening. Stereotype that women of colour are more sexualized and more sexually available. Idea that being female indian isn"t good enough. With the intention to take the indian out of the child . Forcing children to be taken out of their home in order to be stripped and resocialized. Stereotype that indigenous women are not politically important due to not being their role of women. Indian act - 1869 define indian status in patrilineal way. For a women to marry a non status man, they would lose their status (property, education rights, etc)
