WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Obstetrics, Separate Spheres, Ageism

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

Document Summary

To gain historical sense of the conditions, priories, and activities. First wave: the great transformation", ideology: separate spheres and women"s work. The dominant notion, men inhabit public ground a women inhabit the private ground: focus: reform rather than revolution, society needs to reform. Women"s labor league: maternity care, birth control, the most radical, equity feminists, highly educated, typically white, equality across the board, a small group and not quiet as vocal. National council of women, advocated for everything: lots of divides within the group, but they found strength within their diversity. Organizations: women"s christian temperance union (wstu) founded in 1885, women"s labour league, 1924, national council of women (ncw) founded in 1833. Random facts: birth control became legal in 1966, first women studies could be taken in 1970. Innovative: different advocates, men, non-western, women don"t want to identify as a single group of.