SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Finding Dawn, Indian Act, Linda Carty
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Performativity: judith butler- the idea that gender is like a performance, not entirely by choice. Performance: in our society, we perform gender in a certain way. There are discourses and practises in institutions that define gender for us. Aboriginal women are 5 times more likely than other women to die as a result of violence. In north america, we focus on patriarchal violence that occur in other parts of the world. Colonization as patriarchal and racial project that shapes notions of gender and race. Historical background: gender and race in canada. Imperial and colonial relations first wave of feminism. Fighting for the right to vote + citizenship. British women looking at indian women as being oppressed. The british feminists said that the women in india are passive, etc but if the british are going to be like that then we will be like them so therefore women must vote. Discounting there were women in india fighting for their rights.
