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47 Cards in this Set
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Who was sojourner Truth? |
the first black women to win a court case against a white man -"Ain't I a woman" in 1851 at the Ohio Woman's Rights Convention -womans right activist, came from slavery |
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The Cree social Model |
1.men- first line of defense 2. women- last line of defense protecting the culture 3. elders-mentor/ Knowledge passed on 4. children 5. Menstrual blood -when women are removed; there is nothing left -violence against women is power and control against indigenous people |
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Homo Sacer |
People that can be removed from society without a public outcry - to protect the mainstream social body |
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the abolition movement |
Social reform that included the anti-slavery movement and women's rights -Abolitionists incited social change and transformation that included the participation of women |
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Civil rights movement |
goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law. |
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The abortion Caravan |
A Group of women who traveled all over Canada to bring women together and shut down parliament to protest the right of abortion. Vancouver Women's Caucus |
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The Vancouver Women's Caucus |
(1968) -started with four people, found places for women to have safe abortions -they stood for equal pay, 24 hr daycare, and reproduction rights. |
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If u wanted to have an abortion, what needed to be done. |
-u have to get your husband to sign for you -u had to stand up to a counsle and declare that u were unfit to be a mother and that u were crazy |
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Helen Betty Osbourne |
-she was murdered, the RCMP covered it up because they knew the family -she was subjected to the stereotypes connected with violence against native women -also a symbol of systematic Racism |
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Catholic Women's League of Quebec |
-women who advicated the vote for women because of the influence of the church. |
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Manitoba Women's vote |
they were the first to vote in 1919 |
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Pamela George |
-killed in Regina; said that she deserved it because she was an indan. -dehumanizing, a breakdown of a culture. |
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Manitoba Justice inquiry |
idk |
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Free standing abortion clinics |
-understood the need for abortions -one doctor- Mogan - they were raided, he was arrested. |
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Period of subjugation |
-1870-post tready -royal northwest subjecting the women to sexual violence. -they forced them to sexual favours for food |
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the Indian Act |
-effectively excommunicated Indian women who married anyone other than a status Indian; disenfranchised. no citizenship. -the women were no longer in power. |
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colonization |
a process by which a central system of power dominates the surrounding land and its components. The term is derived from the Latin word colere, which means "to inhabit".
-the stripping of a culture, |
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Morgentaler |
- pro-choice advocate who fought for womens reproductive rights, gave a safe place for women to have an abortion. was arrested many times |
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Edwards Vs. Canada |
-persons case. -the famous five ask the supreme court of canada why women were not included as a person. -most important milestones in the history of women's struggle for full citizenship (1929) |
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the famous five |
Nellie Mooney McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Irene Marryat Parlby, Lousie Crummy McKinney, and Emily Murphy -they stood for women being in power in the legislative and as women considered as a person. |
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who said "Violence against the earth begets violence against women"? |
Melina Laboucon-massimo |
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Who is Lucretia mott? |
-a quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights, helped organize the rights convention. -co-founded the American anti-slavery society. |
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Declaration at Seneca falls |
-movement to gain a greater proportion of social, civil and moral rights. (1848) -women reaching for greater control of their lives. -desire for equality in marriage, such as women's property rights and rights to their earning |
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Janice Acoose |
- a professor at Univerity of Regina -in finding dawn, teaches the stereotypes in violence - was subjected to violence herself |
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Melina Laboucon- massimo |
-talked about the violence done again her family, her sister Bella, talked about the violence done against the environment. |
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Hypersexualization of racialized women |
-the Indian Princess |
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what are the social, political, familial, and legal implications of workplace harassment. |
-north country addresses sexual harassment in the work place, and sexual bating. -how difficult it was to stand up for themselves - the first group to get a class action sexual harassment case |
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who said sisterhood is powerful? |
the Vancouver Women's Causcus |
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How took Vallium? |
House wife's took tranquilizers so that they would have more energy and be less bored |
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Royal Commission on the status of women |
-women did not have equality -women were not happy because they were in jobs, that they were depressed |
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Beloved women |
Medicine women, possessed knowledge of herbs, food, traditions, mythologies... like a shaman -midwives |
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Dissemination of birth control |
-husbands had to sign for it -large factor in the second wave -1969 it became official that it was no longer an offense to disseminate information on birth control. - u weren't allowed to talk about it. - u could access it but only was a middle class white women. |
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North Country |
A movies about the sexual harassment and violence against women in the work place. Also addresses sexual batting. Nuts or sluts defense... virgin and the whore complex... first class action for sexual harassment in the states |
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Daleen Bosse |
A missing indigenous women... killed by a bouncer... same situation as Pamela George |
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Native Women's Association of Canada |
the men were not including the women in their issues - researched the violence done against indigenous women. |
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Rebecca Blemore |
- an artist who created a project to where she uses her own body to represent and confront the enactment of violence against the bodies of indigenous women in Vigil 2002 - for the missing and murders of women from Vancouver's lower east side. |
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Christi Belcourt |
"walking with our sisters" a massive commemorative art installation comprised of +1700 pairs of moccasin vamps donated to draw attention to missing and murdered indigenous women |
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Whore/ virgin dichotomy squaw-hopping |
men rape a native woman, but instead of calling it "rape" they call it "squaw hopping". it is a dehumanizing, racist term which justifies the crime of rape on the grounds of the woman being a "squaw". thus, in some mind, rape becomes not "rape" (a serious crime) but "squaw hopping"
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sexuality Baiting |
an attack on women bu calling her names -it attacks their character, and their sexuality -ex: north country |
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what does finding dawn mean to u |
- a new beginning -hope - trying to find answers - the awareness of the missing and murdered indigenous women |
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what is it about numbers? |
-on one sees the significance -creates a different perspective
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statistics about violence against indigenous women (AI) |
-women are 5x more likely than their non-indigenous counterparts to die as a result of violence -more then 1200 murdered ID women |
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intersectionality |
the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
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indian princess/ squaw dichotomy |
virgin and the whore |
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sundance ceremony |
-men make a flesh offering during sun dance, brings an understanding of the sacrifice and pain of birth. this brings balance with women. |
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grimke sisters |
both joined the anti-slavery society and began preaching privately on how it should be abolished. Angela- an appeal Sarah- wrote an epistle to the clerfy |
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nuts or sluts defense |
if u said that u were raped u would either be considered nuts or crazy, or that u were asking for it and were a slut. |
