POLS 2300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Social Feminism, Proletariat, Moral Authority
20 Nov 2015
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Females were generally believed to be more nurturing, emotional, intuitive, cautious and passive. Considered to be due to nature not nurture. In the late 1800"s the women"s movement focused on extending voting rights and legal and social reforms geared towards the protection of the family and traditional values. Woman"s christian temperance union and the national council of women in canada. *supported female suffrage: said women would inject morality into politics, said it was in a woman"s nature to care more about life. Social/maternal feminism: accepted the assumption that genders are biologically different (early women"s movement did not threaten the social/economic male dominance) Second wave of feminism one is not born, but rather becomes a woman (gender roles are socially constructed) Only 4 real differences between men and women ( verbal ability: females better, mathematical ability: males better, visual-spatial ability: males better, males are more aggressive. Females also may bond to children more easily.
