SOC 502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Battered Person Syndrome, Nellie Mcclung, Barbed Wire

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 502
• Professor: Kelly Train

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** las one completely diff: sufferagette movement: start in the uk, then immediately in us, then canada. * saw them as the superior race, they saw themselves as superior to poor ppl, immigrants, wanted to impose their anglosaxin, chiristian values on others. Agnes mcphril: review prison system, prison system a place of punishment, prisoners were slaves workers, tied up, heavily beaten, starve to death. Talked about how the prison system were inhumane, suggested prisons be a place of rehabilitation, ppl were largely their b/c of crimes of poverty. Emily stone: first female docs in canada, practise in toronto, women denied access to uni medical school, 1982 mcgill + uoft allowed women to enter med school. Men: if women were to get to vote, they would divorce their husbands and society would be chaotic *** basis for violence, denying access to resources means your locking them.