GSWS 102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Essex Road Railway Station, Royal Assent, Stella Browne

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Gender Sexuality & Wom St
• Course: GSWS 102
• Professor: Tiffany Muller Myrdahl

Document Summary

Sex/gender: 1st wave: debates about marriage, passion in sex, sexual freedom, the vote and sexuality links between public power in politics and private power in bed. Argued against marriage, but for benefits that come with marriage to be applied to single women: 1920s: wwi influenced opinions on sexuality, 1921-1940s legislation on birth control and abortion in response to free love movement. Sex stuff had to be presented as health and welfare of a woman. Alva mydral: wrote crisis in the population question , encouraging women"s right to choose: 2nd wave: radical feminists attempt to theorize relationships and look at social control due to sexual relationships. Saw how everyday popular literature is patriarchal. Believes in women-loving women, community, separate from society, no hierarchy, etc: political lesbianism: sexual orientation is a choice and women should be asexual or lesbians. Reproductive rights: women"s liberation movement: free contraception and legal abortions demanded, 1915 maternity: letters from working women.