CAST 1100H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intersectionality, Reproductive Rights
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Gender: men, women gendered roles and responsibilities, stereotypes and assumptions we make about what it means to be male or female. Conflicts: erasure of women from historical record, finding ways to understand (and value) women"s contributions in the provate sphere, finding ways to understand power differences between men and women (i. e. intersectionality of race, class) Power relations are often divided along gender(and race/class) lines. Keywords: royal commission on the status of women, missing and murdered indigenous women, abortion caravan, live-in caregiver program. Ignatieff: rights revolution has moved from the public sphere to the private. Recognition: people don"t just want rights, they want recognition of their rights in the private sphere, is a tension: just because it is law, doesn"t mean people believe it. Women"s rights revolution is about choice i. e. ability to choose the life you want to lead. Choice causes conflict when people"s choices and moral beliefs come into conflict for each other.
