SOCI 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Seneca Falls Convention, Simone De Beauvoir, Riot Grrrl
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Sociology of gender: week 3 intersectionality 1. First wave: late 1700s to early 1900s (idea began then) Started with mary wollstonecraft"s a vindication of the rights of women". Argued there was no basis for women"s inequality, not right. Ideas like women"s consent in marriage, women"s right to work outside house, own property; proposed for first time. 1848 seneca falls convention first women"s rights convention (women"s suffrage movement) Ended in 1920 in usa with 19th amendment granting women the vote. Nelly mcclung became central figure to movement (helped in manitoba in. 1918, all of canada by 1918 (except quebec) Quebec didn"t permit women to vote until 1940. Mainly about legal equality women had very few rights. Abolition of slavery was first legal step in the process of securing equality women found that men consistently discouraged their participation in the movement or other non-traditional female work (sexism at every turn)
