WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Individual And Group Rights, Wilma Mankiller, Cynthia Enloe

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMENST 1A03
• Professor: Jennifer Askey

Document Summary

Women"s lives dominate in the private sphere, but they are, somewhat counter-intuitively, even more vulnerable to policies and mandates that happen in the public sphere. Colonial legacies contribute to the structural manifestations of white and male privilege to the exoticization and de-humanization of certain types of bodies and to the criminalization of certain customs and traditions. The results of this legacy are borne differently by men and women. Women as travellers and women as workers in the tourism industry are often involved in tourism in ways to entrench patriarchy in their homes or their nation states. Package group travellers who need guidance and protection. Domestic labourers that allow re-enactment of colonial servitude. Victorian lady travellers: mary kingsley, isabella bird, etc. Created discourse around british empire explained native customs; local geography, etc. Class and race helped them negotiate respectability issues. Guarding against dangers from savages or natives or loss of respectability .