WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Heredity, White Supremacy, Steven Blaney

• School: UTSG
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS160Y1
• Professor: June Larkin

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Nationalism, eugenics, and population control: gender, the state, nation building, masculinist protection, imperialism & motherhood, euge(cid:374)i(cid:272)s a(cid:374)d (cid:858)populatio(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol(cid:859) Writing assignment: no intro/conclusion, just definitions. Gender, the state, and nation building: women as reproducers of the boundaries of ethnic/national groups. The state can regulate this: the saskatchewan female employment act of 1912. Pre(cid:448)e(cid:374)ted (cid:858)orie(cid:374)tal(cid:859) (cid:373)e(cid:374) fro(cid:373) hiri(cid:374)g (cid:449)hite (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374: miscegenation: a term to describe the mixture of races through reproduction, incorrigible: a label used in ontario to brand women who were found drunk, or pregnant, and unwed. A person who cannot be corrected, improved, or reformed: ontario female refugee act. Allowed authorities to jail women b/w women of ages 16- 35 for promiscuous behavior and pregnancy out of wedlock. And who decides: the problem of essentializing culture. Pre assumed essence of culture, something is rigid & fixed, does(cid:374)(cid:859)t fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) (cid:272)ulture(cid:859)s fluidity.