POL 501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White Supremacy, Hunger Strike, Intersectionality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 501
• Professor: Karen Ruddy

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Politics outside the mainstream modes of organizing for social change. Social movements: formal politics, activity that changes power relations through formal political system. Informal politics: activity that changes power relations outside formal area, social movements. Suffragists: claim for political citizenship, right to vote, right to be a citizen, women are fighting to be seen as equal, dominant idea: get the vote (1917, 1919, equal rights feminism. Dr. emily howard stowe: first female doctor, fou(cid:374)der of toro(cid:374)to wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s literar(cid:455) guild, suffragist. Indigenous philosophies and practices of sex/gender and political relations: slave women, sojourner truth (1797-1893, said black women were treated like men, not treated like delicate angels, therefore, they should be equal to men. Intersectionality: not all women are treated the same, not all are considered angels of the house. Maternal feminism: social reform and temperance movements, when women were moving into cities, people were afraid that women would have bad i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e, ha(cid:448)e to (cid:862)prote(cid:272)t(cid:863) the(cid:373)