Riding the Feminist Waves Flashcards
What are the Feminist waves
First wave: 19th - 20th Century
- Five key rights to first wave feminist
1. Enfranchisement (did not include all women (racialized))
2. Access to higher education
3. Property rights
4. Guardianship over our children
5. The right to divorce
Second wave: 1960s - 1990
1. First shelter for women & transition housing
2. Establishment of sexual assault centres
3. Widespread access to birth control
4. Abortion clinics; legal changes around abortion
5. Women’s studies in universites
6. Women’s bookstores, printers, artistic initiatives
7. Equal pay legislation
What is temperence and prohibition and how was WCTU involved
Temperence and Prohibition was the original focus on maternal feminists
Thought alcohol was evil - moral issue
WCTU - The Women’s Christian Temperence Union
- Founded by Letitia Youmans
What is essentialism in women’s studies and how does it connect to maternal (Social) Feminism?
The belief that women had a moral and biological superiority to men - Maternal (Social) Feminism
Guide their mothering in the home and in the nation
Responsibilities towards not just improving women’s lives, but the country
What is an equal rights feminist
Supported and emphasized women’s sameness to men - inherential wrong
Understood certain rights (enfranchisement) as human rights
What were the three phases to the vote World War 1 and Feminist
1917 Military Voter’s Act: Women nurses serving in the war
1917 Wartime Elections Act: Franchise to the wives, widows, mothers, sisters and daughters of those alive or deceased, who had served or were serving in the Canadian or British Militaary or naval force
What was the Women’s franchise act:
passage of the federal enfranchisement to women who were over the age of 21 and British Subjects, and who possessed the same qualifications as men
Whats the differnece of grassroots activists and Institutional feminism
Grassroots feminism: Pushed for changes from the ground up, community level to improve women’s lives
Institutional feminism: Feminists used R.C.S.W. Used the state (government) to make changes to improve women’s lives
What is R.C.S.W
The creation of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women
A nationwide research programs
What is feminism
A political, social, economical in scope and interest
Feminism rejects hierarchy, oppression, exploitation, and binary thinking
What is patricarchy
Based on hierarchy, oppression, and exclusion of women
Patriarchy was the rule of the father and lineage followed through the male (father) line
Sexism
The negative valuing and discriminatory treatment of individuals and groups on the basis of their sex
Personal sexism
Insults, harrassment and discrimination directed at individuals
Institutionla or systematic sexism
Practices or structures of institutions that have the effect of excluding or discriminating against women
Misogyny
Men find it difficult to be patriarchs. Most men are disturbed by hatred and fear of women
Hate towards women
Gender
Sex and gender are not the same things
Gender is structured as a binary: either masculine OR feminine
Socially constructed
