WGST 1F90 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wartime Elections Act, Social Feminism, Wgst
14 Dec 2015
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Module 1 (introduction, waves 1, 2, & 3, feminism, feminist theories) Women"s movement was in three phases or waves. Metaphor waves" implies in between the waves, activism in non-existent but they were overlapping. Started 19th to mid 20th century, wanted to make canada pure, causes: homes for prostitutes. Introduced two strategies; maternal social feminism and equal rights feminism. Criticisms tended to be a white middle class movement (means there is no diversity for other races and classes; doesn"t favor poor white or rich black) focused on achieving rights for women of class privilege. Union movement was not open for working class women intolerant of unacceptable behavior (women needed to dress appropriately" still) 1917 military voter"s act: women nurses serving in the war. 1917 wartime elections act: franchise to wives, widows, mothers, sisters, and daughters of those alive or dead, who served/serving in the canadian or british military or naval. Force (women affected by the men serving in the war)
