SOC 608 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intersectionality, Sex Segregation, Reproductive Rights

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 608
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Liberal, socialist and radical feminism (chapter 1: what did mary wollstonecraft argue? argued concept of liberalism did not only relate to men. Instead of seeing women as inherently simple, irrational, and emotional, she argued that these gender characteristics are not innate in the female sex but are the result of an environment that requires them to be so. Vote and suffragette movement; called first feminist movement. 1880; white upper class women started to participate in the suffragette movement. As wives and mothers they knew what was best for their families, therefore they know what"s best for society. With war going on, they passes and act the married women vote on behalf of their husbands. The right to vote, right to education, to be considered persons" under the law: first wave feminists thought the root of all problems were: (hint: lived on prairies, thought they were just lovely???) Canadian society: what gave rise to liberal feminism? (second wave)