WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Genetic Drift, Mental Health, Paul Broca

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMENST 1A03
• Professor: Wafa Hassan

Document Summary

Scientific and medical discourse about sex, gender, ability, sexuality and race in the (anti)-suffrage movement. Suffrage/franchise: the rights to vote in political elections. Enfranchise: to give someone the legal right to vote. Suffragist: a member of the women"s suffrage movement, male or female. Often associated with activists who used peaceful methods of protest, including petitions and mock parliaments. Suffragette: a woman seeking the right to vote through militant protest. Commonly associated with british activists, who used illegal methods to fight for the vote. Often used as a derogatory term by opponents. Anti-suffragist: commonly known as antis, these men and women felt deeply threatened by the prospect of equality, which would unbalance the status quo. Carstens article unbecoming women is primarily looking at the victorian era (1837- 1901, officially) in mid to late 19th century the 1800s in britain. Suffrage movement began in the victorian era and continued well into the 20th century.