Women's Studies 1020E Study Guide - Final Guide: Bourgeoisie, Structural Violence, First Nations
5 Jun 2018
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EXAM OUTLINE
• Sunday April 15th, 2018, 2:00-5:00PM @ Elborn College, 2168A/B
• Three parts (approx. one hour per section) (readings list will be available)
o Short Answer with Link (choose 3 out of 6 options. 10 marks per item,
30 marks total.
▪ Choose three items: a term, concept, name, text title, or quote
▪ Define or explain the term, identify the quote and its major ideas,
situate the term in relation to larger ideas of text/lecture it came
from
▪ Discuss how the item connects or contrasts with another theme,
concept or text from the course that you have no addressed above,
explain how item plugs into this other theme/idea/text
▪ Use detail and examples
o Longer Short Answer
▪ Choose 2/3 options, 2x15 marks each, 30 total
▪ Answer the questions with sustained detailed analyses and
examples from course
▪ Doesn’t have to be from readings or lecture, can be from
course overall, so tutorial, movies, any concept
o Essay Answer
▪ Choose 1/2 options; 30 marks total
▪ Make direct and well-developed references to three readings from
the course
▪ Intro, thesis, arguments, conclusion
▪ Welcome to include material from tutorials, class discussion, films
and posted notes but make sure to use three readings
▪ Be literal, “in the reading by Virginia Woolf”
Second Term Readings
Reproductive Health and Justice
➢ Brian Savage, “Large Numbers of Natives Were Sterilized by Province”
o Discusses Alberta Eugenics (the attempting of genetic improvement of humans,
“the deliberate genetic manipulation of a population”)
o Indigenous people represent 2.5% of Alberta and were 25% of those sterilized
o The government tried to pass a bill that reduced the amount of money that people
demanded to be compensated by public criticism they withdrew it
➢ Angela Davis, Outcast Mothers and Surrogates: Racism and Reproductive Politics in the
Nineties
o Discusses how reproductive technologies can be used to perpetuate sexist and
racist notions of motherhood
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o 3 types of reproductive technology
▪ Prevent/eliminate pregnancy
▪ Monitor/regulate pregnancy
▪ Create/enhance the chances of pregnancy
o we need to examine their affects, Davis says that we may think these
technologies are in relation to individual right and choice, but they are
structurally embedded in socio-cultural and economic relations and
histories
o Artificial insemination
▪ Insertion of sperm into the female reproductive track in some way other
than intercourse
▪ Easy/non-invasive form, generally no surgical procedures
▪ Study found many Canadian clinics that are not testing for chlamydia or
gonorrhea
o In Vitro Fertilization
▪ Different than AI because does the fertilization in a petri dish and then the
embryo is inserted
▪ High success rates
▪ Advantages: men who have fertility problems
▪ Higher rate of miscarriage, success is impacted by age
▪ Invasive procedure, first attempts are often not successful
o Surrogacy
▪ Women is contracted by an individual/couple to carry a pregnancy for
them, sometimes the surrogate may provide genetic material
▪ In Canada, reimbursements are made but doesn’t even add up to minimum
wage
o There may be a connection between contemporary surrogacy and history of
slavery (African American Mammies: female slaves were used as wet nurses
for white slave owners children)
o New developments of technology encourage the emergence of popular
attitudes that bear resemblance to 19th century taboos against abortion and
etc.
o Discusses how, yes white women were being “incarcerated” in their
biological reproductive roles but black women were forced to bear children
for the purpose of expanding human property by slave owners (their status
was basically like “temporary surrogate mother”)
o People may express concern about contemporary technologies, saying that it
is a “deconstruction of motherhood” but slavery was all fragmented
maternities
o Many women don’t have the resources for these technologies accessible to
them (working class, POC)
o People are expected to try everything the can when they’re infertile as if
motherhood is the true role of females
o Its not that reproductive technologies are inherently violative of womens
rights, but their producers commodify motherhood and deepen power
relationships based on class and race
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➢ Loretta Ross Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive (ealth Collective, A Primer on
Reproductive Justice and Social Change
o Reproductive justice is the complete physical, mental, spiritual, political and
social well being of women and girls based on full achievement and protection of
human rights that involves the right to HAVE, NOT HAVE, and PARENT
CHILDREN, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS NEED TO BE UNDERSTOOD
INTERSECTIONALLY
o Reproductive justice analyzes the inequality of opportunities that we have to
control our reproductive destiny
Extra notes on the topic:
Margaret Sanger
• Thought people with undesirable traits should be sterilized (black, prostitute, etc.)
Mississippi Appendectomy
• Black women were told they were going to have appendectomy’s but were
permanently sterilized
• Trials for birth control happened on people in psychological hospitals because they
were seen as expendable population
• Was not informed consent (were told they would have no funding or aid, or their
children would be taken away if they didn’t undergo sterilization)
Leilani Muir
• Was dropped off in 1955 at “Alberta training school for mental defectives”
• Without knowledge or consent her ovaries were removed but she thought she was having
an appendicitis surgery
• This was done under the justification that she was a “moron” and they didn’t want her
reproducing
• She got married and found out she didn’t have a chance of being pregnant
Dalkon Shield
• IUD on US Market in early 1970s inserted with a string
• Dangerous Key problem: bacteria, infection, septic abortions, sterility and some
death
• Gets pulled temporarily off market and gets sold to other countries for population control
• It was sold unsterilized, one applicator for every 10 shields meaning you have to share
and was only instructed in three languages AT A 48% DISCOUNT
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Document Summary
Exam outline: sunday april 15th, 2018, 2:00-5:00pm @ elborn college, 2168a/b, three parts (approx. one hour per section) (readings list will be available, short answer with link (choose 3 out of 6 options. Intro, thesis, arguments, conclusion: welcome to include material from tutorials, class discussion, films and posted notes but make sure to use three readings, be literal, in the reading by virginia woolf . Brian savage, large numbers of natives were sterilized by province : discusses alberta eugenics (the attempting of genetic improvement of humans, Angela davis, (cid:498)outcast mothers and surrogates: racism and reproductive politics in the. Invasive procedure, first attempts are often not successful: surrogacy, women is contracted by an individual/couple to carry a pregnancy for them, sometimes the surrogate may provide genetic material. Loretta ross (cid:523)sistersong women of color reproductive (ealth collective(cid:524), (cid:498)a primer on. Intersectionally: reproductive justice analyzes the inequality of opportunities that we have to control our reproductive destiny.
