GS201 Lecture Notes - Gender Studies, Shifting Cultivation, Antifeminism
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First-wave feminism (late 1800s, early 1900s: early first-wave, reform to criminal codes, marriage laws, access to education, right to own property and equality in inheritance, rights of single women. Later first-wave: access to major professions, access to work in the civil service, right to vote and to be elected to political office. First-wave feminism: suffrage: the concern for official equality before the law became especially focussed on the right to vote: the suffrage movement, canadian suffrage battles won in 1916-17 (western provinces plus ontario, 1918+ (nationally, atlantic provinces, 1940 (quebec) War and women"s work: war effort drew women out of the home and into factories, poster internal to westinghouse electric, 1943, later converted into a symbol of the women"s movement. Post wwii: the suburban housewife (video: ford advertisement. In this ad, the car is the key to women"s freedoms. Idea of two-car family in a suburban home as being exactly what a woman should want.
