GSWS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mento, Hashtag Activism, Liberal Feminism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Gender Sexuality & Wom St
• Course: GSWS 101
• Professor: Lara Campbell

Document Summary

O(cid:396)ga(cid:374)ized (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of e(cid:395)ualit(cid:455), cultivated in canada 19th century to 1918. Right to vote, access to higher education, property rights. Higher education and professions: access, unable to train to become anything prior. Dictated by gender, race, class status: maternal feminism. Two dominant thoughts of feminism: maternal and equal rights. Maternal feminism: subverting separate spheres: women and men opposite/different, philosophy of gender, fundamentally different from each other. Man: worker naturally assertive, well suited to life in public; women: caregiver, naturally kind, caring, nurturing suitable for looking after children and home, not participating in public life (private) Women are expected to build home, for the men to relax. Public power to change/influence society (cid:858)clea(cid:374) up(cid:863) the pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) sphe(cid:396)e public house keepers. Industrialization, urbanization, & immigration: 3 social, political changes. Unplanned urbanization: rural to urban economy, dirty, loud, lack of garbage disposal, Industrialization: growth of service sector secretaries, switch board phone connectors se(cid:449)age disposal .