WMST 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Squaw, Chemical Castration, Popular Science
23 Sep 2016
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Definition = aim to foster understanding of the many circumstances that combine with many discriminatory social practices, not just sexism, and gender discrimination, to produce and sustain inequality and exclusion. 2 parts to consider when when doing an intersectional analysis: social discrimination and conditions. Not all women face oppression or sexism due to their location. It is helpful throughout the course - pg 44) helps to plot different identities, social barriers, conditions etc. Marrium * from peterborough how her nationality is affecting her life (news article?) Colonialism - europeans went to new places, took the land, treated the people as if they weren"t valuable, made rules. The squaw - stereotype of first nations/inuit women, racists and sexist term that describes women as loose, sexually available. How isolated you are, it"s not about how people or systems treat you, it has to do with the conditions of your life.
