SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Emmeline Pankhurst, Millicent Fawcett, Annie Kenney
3 Oct 2012
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1972: national action committee on the status of women. 1982: women against violence against women (vancouver) 1989: montreal massacre in which 14 women students at the ecole. Polytechnique were systematically killed and 13 other student wounded. Focused on the vote, inheritance and property rights. Refers to a period of feminist activity which began during the early 1960"s and lasted through the early 1990"s. Also focused on sexuality, family, the workplace, and reproductive rights. Less dogmatic, more oriented to self-help, bodies (breast cancer) etc. Arose in response to perceived 2nd wave failures and social backlash. Less structures, more diversified, addresses women in developing world, race class etc. Born 1871 polish town of zamosc in the year of the paris commune. Refused to assume the stereotypical roles women usually fill (mother, uneducated etc. ) The move for women to have the vote had really started in 1897 when. Millicent fawcett founded the national union of women"s suffrage.
