Women's Studies 2283F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Agnes Macphail, Third-Wave Feminism

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2283F/G
• Professor: Andrea Allen

Document Summary

First wave feminist and women"s movement in north america and europe: abolition of slavery, suffrage, voting rights. Integral for women to participate in society: temperance, the idea of alcohol prohibition, moderation. Family stability: us: elizabeth cady stanton; susan b. anthony; margaret sanger, margaret sanger: founder of planned parenthood, eugenicist, canada: white canadian women voting federal enfranchisement (1918); women"s labour. League: marie therese forget casgrain, agnes macphail; dr. elizabeth bagshaw: casgrain: first woman elected to head a political party, agnes macphail: first women in parliament. Commodification of women"s sexuality by women: using the symbols and tools of patriarchy, relationship with neoliberalism and modernity. Focuses on the rational individual who has complete agency over their life: can invoke entitlement, confidence, and privilege. Family history: daughter of alice walker, childhood experiences, her feminism, rooted in experience, rooted in solidarity, rooted in choice, critique of social control and domination. She"s looking at the ways in which society has tried to curtail women"s sexuality.