GSWS 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Consumer Capitalism, Gender Identity, Indian Act

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Gender Sexuality & Wom St
• Course: GSWS 101
• Professor: Lara Campbell

Document Summary

Study online at quizlet. com/_5dzd3o: anti-suffrage, caring labour. Assigned to one sex by doctors; surgery. Genital markers & psychological adjustment: creative. Unit works together-paid and unpaid labour valuable. Increased dependance on wages changes definiton of work. Organized women"s movement for equality, 19th century to 1918. Three main arguments for political equality: formal equality, gender/sex. Construction: income/wage gap & gendered time gap, indian act & Series of forces which influence the person you become. To categorize/divide on the basis of two opposing categories. Shaped by culture & history: not inherent. Gendered time gap (hours spent): persists but narrowing. Section 12(b): loss of status when marry non-native man. Violence: missing & murdered indigenous women (4. 5 x higher homicide rate = disproportionate rates of violence) Idle no more: government inquiry: individual racism belief in racial superiority of one group, intersectionality over another; hostility. Multiple systems of oppression (race, gender, sexuality, dis/ability; class) are. Goal: not diversity challange stuctures of power, hierarchy, injustice.