[POLS 280] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (50 pages long)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 280
• Professor: Elizabeth Goodyear- Grant

Document Summary

Maternal feminism (week 2: women better society with nurturing qualities, no questioning of public/private dichotomy, typically uninclusive (white, educated, protestant, upper-middle class) Public/private dichotomy (week 2: first wave feminism in the canadian suffrage movement, public = business, politics etc. Intersectionality: combining of identities not only additive but productive, new unique was of looking at how privilege and oppression intersect, stepping beyond aggregate categories to specificity and self identification, associated with third wave feminism. Formal equality: equality of treatment, eg. suffrage as a universal right. Substantive equality: equality of outcome, the idea that treating certain groups differently levels the playing. First wave feminism: late 19th to early 20th century, focus: legal rights as in suffrage, child custody, divorce, property law, firstly about material issues (ei. Property rights) before moving into political issues in order to use the vote as a way to gain further rights: persons case in 1929 (week 2) illustrated some of the rights women were trying to gain.