SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill, Class Discrimination
11 Apr 2014
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The women"s movement and equality rights in canada. If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of woman, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. Supreme court of canada (reference re meaning of the word persons in s. 24 of the bna act, 1928: equality rights and the intellectual roots of the (white, middle-class) Rights of man defended the french revolution: she was in broad agreement with the liberal democratic slogan of. 4. the french revolution liberty equality and brotherhood. Paine was defending the right of men like actually men and. Wollstonecraft believed that he was only defending half the population. First wave feminism (late 19th and early 20th century) Gain basic political and legal rights for women (vote, property, considered a person). Quite conservative: first wave feminism as largely conservative and racist; privileging of white, middle-class motherhood, overwhelming protestant christian and actively excluded anyone who wasn"t christian from their movement.
