WS 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Biopower, Social Hygiene Movement, Socioeconomics

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Squaw is a sexualized, racialized, gendered slur for indigenous women. Savage (meaning something that doesn"t move on progressively) The term squaw actually exists in algonquin and mohawk languages. However, it does not exist in the majority of indigenous languages. In these languages, the term refers to female genitalia. By the 19th century, white settlers appropriated the term to basically mean indigenous. Prostitute . (sexually excessive) all these monstrous women are of the body, no mind, sexually excessive. This is why language matters: it has concrete results and material effects. According to merskin, this term creates ethnostress (internalization of discourse) for indigenous women. Speaking specifically of street sex work (in western canada). Interesting because street sex work is the smallest sector of sex work, but is also the most visible. When we here the term sex work we think of the woman on the corner. Estimated 15-20% of all sex work in canada is street sex work.

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