RELG 271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Post-Structuralism, Capability Approach, Reproductive Rights

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 271
• Professor: Jon Waind

Document Summary

Sexual ethics women"s rights & religious freedom. Mid 1800"s feminism referred to qualities of females". English use -> belief in advocacy of equal rights for women based on the idea of the equality of the sexes. Rooted in mobilization for women"s suffrage in europe and the us during late 19th and early 20th century. Women"s suffrage right to vote on equal terms with men. Struggle to achieve basic political rights during the period from the mid-19th century until the passage of the nineteenth amendment in. 19th amendment (aug. 18, 1920): the rights of citizens of the united. States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Key figures: mary wollstonecraft, virginia woolf, susan b. anthony. A push beyond early quest for political rights.