WEEK 1 - Intro to Gendered Violence

Question 1

First Wave (late 1800 - early 1900)

Answer 1

Right to divorce on bases of abuse and alcohol
Right to vote and own property
Persons under law

Question 2

Second Wave (1960 - 1985)

Answer 2

Women’s oppression within social institutions
> intersectionality
Women pushed union brothers to address “women’s issues”
Labour for gender equality
Issue of rape
Women’s liberation movement

Question 3

Third Wave (1985)

Answer 3

Expands on second, includes class, sexuality, and age
recognition of women’s diverse realities and experiences
Governance feminists - within the law (governance-based solutions)
Carceral feminists - call for more laws (use of punishment)
> problem is lower class would be disproportionate

Question 4

Fourth Wave

Answer 4

Present - future
> social media and hashtags

Question 5

Problems with Feminist Waves?

Answer 5

Oversimplifies feminist history and theories in other waves
falsely linear
Erasure of racialized, black people and the global south
> western concept that does not acknowledge other feminists across the world

Question 6

What is Secularism?

Answer 6

Separation of religion and the state
> negative impact on Muslim women
> Multani v. Commission
> Bouchard - Taylor report - gov banned wearing religious symbols
> a feminist law, but excludes many types of women

Question 7

Sex work vs. Prostitution

Answer 7

Sex work = legalized/decriminalized, free of violence and policing
Prostitution = oppressive industry, victims of patriarchal violence
> not all feminists agree on the issue

Question 8

Example of Exclusion of Trans and Gender-Diverse Women

Answer 8

Kimberly Nixon v. Vancouver rape and relief crisis shelter
> wanted a job, said she couldn’t offer real advice as she isn’t a real women

Question 9

Define Intersectionality

Answer 9

Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term in 1989
A reality is formed for a person when different elements come in, everyone is different and unique in their experiences
Allows for a deeper analysis and sheds light on the cross-over between social and structural factors that conditions women for their vulnerability to violence
“Intersectional approach” in policies, practices, and intervention work
A lot of white women studying the term, ethical problems
accumulation of disadvantages and their interaction

Question 10

What is Transformative Justice?

Answer 10

Restorative justice - responds to violence without the revolving door
Prevention of harm - addressing it and how it happened
Understand micro and macro elements

Question 11

What is The Famous Five?

Answer 11

Advocated for women to be persons under the law
October 18th is person day in Canada - which paved the way for women to participate in government and public service
Eugenism - a set of practices aimed at improving the human population through controlled breeding (sterilization)

Question 12

Angela Yvonne Davis

Answer 12

Mistake by mainstream feminism is women at the very bottom (marginalized) cannot touch the ceiling that privileged and white women have access to, inclusion and diversity is not enough
> do not wish to be included in racist, misogynistic, and patriarchal society

Question 13

Examples of Racialized Women who Contributed to Women’s History

Answer 13

1. the coloured women’s club of Montreal
2. midwives in African Nova Scotian communities