WGST 1F90- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 92 pages long!)

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1F90
• Professor: Jenny Janke

Document Summary

19th century separate realms of women and men: i(cid:374)for(cid:373)al po(cid:449)er, u(cid:374)paid la(cid:271)our, volu(cid:374)teer work (cid:894)wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s real(cid:373)(cid:895, dise(cid:374)fra(cid:374)(cid:272)hised. We owe five key rights to first wave feminist: enfranchisement, access to higher education, property rights, guardianship over our children, the right to divorce. Tended to be a white, middle class movement. Focus was on achieving rights for particular groups of women (those with some race/class privilege). Capitalism was not thoroughly interrogated as part of the problem obvious sexism was the focus. Union movement was not as open to women difficult for working class women to organize. The unfinished business of feminism by karen cho (2012) Film outlines the establishment of the rcsw in canada. Major issues highlighted: violence against women, abortion, and child care. Gender categories are socially constructed and reinforced on many fronts: media, family, peers, schools, educations system, socio-political policies, and religion.