GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Liberal Feminism, Essentialism, John Diefenbaker
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Waves: traditional way of discussing history of women"s movement, each of these waves is said to describe a period pf intense activism and social change. 1st wave (late 19th & early 20th c: goal. Basic political and legal rights for women: conservative. Rights based on natural role of women as wife and mother (maternal feminism. Racist: abolishes unity doctrine , right to own property, right to vote. Achieved for non-aboriginal women circa late 1910s: right to sit in the senate (persons case), edwards v. canada 1928. Supreme court rules in 1928 that women are not persons. But overturned on appeal by the privy council in 1929. Equality and rights: liberalism is based on the idea of abstract rights . Liberal emphasis on property rights over poverty rights: charter guarantees certain rights, not other rights. Idea of equality is limited: abstract, no economic rights, two competing conceptions of equality: formal and substantive.
