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27 Cards in this Set
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Jonathan Nedd Katz books (2)
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Gay American History (1976)
The Invention of Heterosexuality (1995) |
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"Malthusian Couple"
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metaphor for heterosexuality
- has had the most intense regulation and rules |
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"The White Life for Two"
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- monogamous married life
- marriage for the purpose of reproduction - class and race - coined by Francis Wilard |
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Since the 1890s, has the divorce rate increased or decreased?
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INCREASING
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How many divorces/year were there in the
a) 19880s b) mid 1920s |
a) 12 divorces/year
b) 600 divorces/year |
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Why was divorce originally not as common?
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- push for reproduction
- expensive - women could not leave on their own ( GENDER) |
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What was the old acceptable reason for divorce in early 20th century?
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Adultery
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Case of John Thompson & Annie Affleck
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- Sexual relationship in 1870s/80s
- she had to carry weight of the "procreation" in the relationship - spent most of her adult life pregnant |
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What was the modern form of marriage in 1920s?
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Companionate marriage
- more than procreation - share a sexual desires |
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Who was the first female judge?
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Emily Murphy (one of the famous five)
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Why was Niagara Falls known as the "honeymoon capital of the world"
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- pre existing destination for tourists
- 1870s/80s - bridal tour turns to private affair - go to be alone - falls represent the never ending stream of eroticized imagery |
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"Bridal Tour"
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When you get married, you drove around the province visiting people - way of seeking community approval for new marriage
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What are the two female identities outside of marriage?
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- Spinster
- Independence of women |
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Spinster
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- distain
- excesses of first wave feminism - remain single |
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Anna B (church case)
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- 1836
- Shamefully yieldining to a seducre - asked for church forgiveness - cast out |
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William (church case)
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- 1836
- Admitted he had sex before marriage - church ordered him to stand before the congregation and say what he had done |
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Charivari cases
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1881
- James & Margaret - 4 hours of charivari; James murdered 1922 - crowd of 200 people; tarred and feathered a man for his affair with a married woman |
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What year was the Criminal Code of Canada created?
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1892
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The 1892 Criminal Code made ________ illegal.
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any deviation for monogamous marriage
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Social Purity Movement
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- Sexual purity
- department of temperance - attacked all forms of non reproductie sex - prostitution was the "social evil" - state wanted movement to do the dirty work |
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Birth Control Movement
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- 1892 - birth control was illegal
- feminists pioneered birth control - Dr. Elizabeth Bagshaw - opened first irth control clinic in Hamilton - A.R. Koffman - most prominant advocate for birth control in Kitchener - Dorothea Palmer - arrested for distributing birth control info |
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When was the first birth control clinic opened and where?
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1930s
Vancouver |
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Eugenics Movement
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- 1920s/30s
- Malthus, neo-Malthusians - social improvement through restriction of reproduction - eugenics board enforced sterilizaiton |
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Helen MacMurphy
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1915 "Inspector of the feeble minded"
- guided national council of women to endorse sterilization of women |
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Between 1929-1972, how many sterlization cases were approved?
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4,000+
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What are "free unions"?
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Come together on the basis of love - no state compulsion or social convention
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What did Flora MacDonald Dension campaign for?
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- easier acces to divorce
- birth control |
