WGS160Y1 Lecture 6: WEEK 6 readings
30 Oct 2017
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The antislavery movement civilization national female type . Created a vocabulary of slavery vs emancipation. Feminists quickly learned to articulate the dimensions of their own oppression. Harriet taylor about sex (1851): a distinction as accidental as that of colour, and fully irrelevant to all questions of government . Referred to the degraded condition of women in the savage state . With the onset of civilization, women"s position improved (gaied the responsibilities of the home and the care of children) Acted as a foil against which feminists could exhibit their role as agents of civilization, their commitment to racial motherhood. Was to make british feminists or white women the highest and most. Viewed the enfranchisement of women as part of the progress of a world that had but just begun to cast off injustice. It is only now getting rid of negro slavery .
