UU150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Indian Register, Indian Act, Jargon
11 Oct 2020
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Ws100 lecture 8: - over the years there have been many rules relating to who is included under this term, - because indian women lost their status if they married a non- Indian and indian men did not, indian women are often said to have been discriminated against by the indian act. Before 1985: could lost status: - through enfranchisement: process determining your indian status either voluntary or involuntarily, - if you were not a women who married a man who was not a. Indian : - if you were born out of wedlock to a mother with status and a father without. Includes jokes, tv, music, advertising, legal jargon, laws, words and imagery, that make violence against women and sexual coercion seem so normal that people believe that rape is inevitable. In a rape culture both men and women assume that sexual violence is a fact of life inevitable.
