SOSC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Flapper, Reproductive Health, W. M. Keck Observatory
5 Dec 2017
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Purity informed conceptions of (cid:494)nation(cid:495), race, gender (cid:523)eg. pure nation/pure. Social purity multifaceted concept linked to purity of mind/soul/body (the pure life) Cleanliness referred to clean body, dressed in white (purity), white skin. Everything was afraid of getting a sickness due to this issue which lead to cleanliness. Import of english women from england to canada pure people (which was. Idealized as white, educated, refined young, respectable, home making woman (not just any british girl) (cid:498)race-making(cid:499) race and of themselves as both a specific race and as the vanguard of the human race as a whole. The ambiguity of the term hence allowed white anglo-saxon supremacy to be justified without argument or evidence: it was obvious that as anglo-saxons progressed or declined, so would the world. (cid:499) (nicholson, modern girl (2015) p. 101) Middle class women: seemed unsuitable to be brought to canada. The importance was the women must be british.
