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Patriarchy |
A social system in which males holds primary power, predominate in role of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property. in the domain of famil, fathers, or father-figures hold authority over women and children. continues and changed over time in response to economic system, family structures and religious beliefs. lerner says that it can be ended by historical process |
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Liberal Feminism |
individualistic form of feminist theory, which focuses on women ability to maintain their equality through their own actions and choices. exending the right of man to women |
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Socialist feminism |
is a two-pronged theory that broadens marxist feminism arguments for the role of capitalism in the oppression of women and radical femininsm's theory of the role of gender and the patriarchy. the organization of working women |
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maternal feminism |
belief of many early feminist that women as mothers and caregiver had an important but distinctive role to play in society and in politics. it incorporates reform ideas from social feminism and combines the concepts of maternalism and feminism. women's sphere, gender differences. temperance, WCTU; social purity |
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Radical Feminism |
a perspective within feminism that call for a radical roedering of society in which male supremacy is elimiated in all social and economic contexts. seeks to ablish patriarchy existing social norms and institutions, rather than through purely political process. It coincides with other movement: civil rights, anti-war and liberations. Sex oppression of women by men. 3 sites of oppression: the state --> laws, political institutions, state authority = male authority, the family --> romantic love, beauty, dating, dieting = reliant on man's attention, motherhoood --> good women = good mother. 3 keys issues : reproduction, pornography, and violence |
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The problem that has no name |
women who left their job and schools, they moved into suburbs to fill the void in their lives; however, when they moved there, the void seemed to still be existant. although many womien felt this void, they had no name for it, they couldn't put their finger on what the problem was. this concept ties into the feminine mystique - betty friedan |
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Royal Commission on the status of women |
This was a commission founded by Florence Bird to investigate the issues women were living with. the commission was made up of 4 women and 2 men |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
she is an american suffragist, social activist, abolitionist and a leading figure in the early women's rights movement. From 1892-1900, she was the predident of the naitonal women siffrage association. this aassociation was created in response to a split in the american equal rights association over whether the women movement should opposed the amendment unless included to vote for women. thus stanton is important to achieving the right to vote for women |
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Friedrich Engels |
he is a german philospher, social scientist and journalist. he co-founded the marxist theory with Karl Marx. The Theory highlight the concepts of class stuggle that plays a role in society's development. He made important contributions to family economics in his research. it was his belief that patriarchy revolved around private propery. it began with an accumulation of economic surplus, which led to the validation of private property. this leads to the creation of class hierarchies and women's oppression |
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Gerda Lerner |
She is one of the founded women's hisotyr. /she agreed with engels that private property was important but argued that reproduction labour was key to man subordination to women. it was the idea could control the number of children she would give birth to, thus controlling the amount of help the husband would get with the crops. |
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Mary Wollstonecraft |
she is a writer, philosopher and an advocate for women rights. in her work a vindication of the right of women she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be because of their lack of education. she suggest that both men and women should be treated as rationale beings and images a social order founded on reason |
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Harriett Taylor |
she is a British philosopher and women's rights advocate, she had lots of influence on her husband, john Stuart mill. she wrote enfranchisement of women, which contain language of an abolitionist movement |
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John Stuart Mill |
he is an English philosopher, political economist, feminist and civil servant. he suggest the idea of freedom of the individual. this idea is clear in his work 'subjection of women" which also demonstrates a case of perfect equality |
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Betty Friedan |
she an american writer, activist and feminist. she is a leading figure in women's movement in the united states. she is the author of a book entitled, the feminine mystique which addresses the issues of the problem that has no name, she is also the co-founder and first president of the national organization for women. the goal of the organization was to bring women into mainstream american society, now is fully equal partnership with men. she also played a part in the women strike for equality, which lead to the right to vote |
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Laura Sabia |
she is a Canadian social activist and feminist. she was on the national chair of the committee for the equality of women. she also played a huge part in the creation of the royal commission on the status of women. she issues an ultimatum to Lester B. Pearson, that is he refuses to set up an commission,she would march many women on parliament hill |
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Florence Bird |
She is a Canadian broadcaster, journalist and senator. she sat as chair on the royal commission on the status of women as well |
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Jennifer Stephens: balancing equality for the post-war women: demobilizing Canada's women worker after world war two
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the result is an historical study of the gendering of canada's welfare state that recognize the important role played by educated white middle-class women who were also seeking a place of their own in the emerging bureaucracy of the post-war welfare state, while at the same time developing the very policies that would effectively limit the citizenship right of their working-class sisters by entrenching a two-tiered system of labor market regulation rooted in material relations of class, race, gender, ethnicity. |
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Franca Iacovetta: recipes for democracy? Gender, Family, and making female citizens in cold war Canada |
nutrition and food campaigns and what front-line health and welfare called 'family life' project intended to improve poor and immigrant children's lives and remake their mothers. |
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Betty Friedan - the feminine Mystique |
this chapter introduces 'the problem that has no name' women left the workforce as well as schools in order to move into the suburbs and become good wives. some girls as young as 12-14 were going to marriage counselors in order to learn how to be a good wife. university and college age women were attending schools in order to find a husband and to take classes in home care and child raising. when they found a man and moved into the suburban neighborhoods, things weren't all that they had hoped. there was this feeling of fulfillment and boredom |
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Daniel Horowitz - Betty Friedan and the origins of feminism in cold war america |
Horowitz debunks Betty Friedan. he basically call her a fraud and relays her history and past to the reader. |
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The Royal Commission on the Status of Women |
this is a bunch of recommendation that the committee put forward in order to seek equality for women with men |
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According to radical feminism, what are three sites for women oppression? |
the state: laws and political instituions Family: romantic love, beauty, dating and diet reliant on husband motherhood: good mother = good wife. |
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Four elements of the report |
1. women free to choose to work outside the home or not 2. care of children is a shared responsiblity 3. society has responsibility for women ebcasue of pregancy and childbirth, special treatment always necessary 4. for an interim period, in certain areas women will require special treatment to overcome adverse effect of discriminatory practices. |
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three reasons why Pearson reversed his decision |
1. political reason : liberal minority, NDP Grace McInnes pushed for it; wouldn't have done this is was enjoying majority government; he was more pragmatic 2. economic: women in the workforce increasing, more needed; placate the mobilization 3. diffuse feminist complaint: Royal Commissions are notorious for diffusing attentions for issues |
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