SOC363 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Hunting Ground, Sexual Assault, Indian Act
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Annie and andrea filed title 9 reports (which is a federal gender equality law), they by passed their institution and went to the department of education. They were going to other campuses and educating others on how to do the same thing. Rape culture: condones sexual assault (in the case of the university context with the case of the football player) Key characteristics include blaming victims, denying the pervasiveness of sexual assault. Present day issues that women face is present day colonialism (its effects are ongoing and lived) The issue of the land can be easily forgotten as the key point in colonialism. She is talking about the politics of the native identity. In order to colonize a population, you need to figure out the identities and sort them. The creation of these categories are rather arbitrary. Federal legislation enabled by the canadian government to define who counts as an indian. The development of reserves was crucial to this process.
