HIST 2930 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lower Canada, Mary Wollstonecraft, Underground Railroad
2 Feb 2017
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Week 7: early women"s social and political activism. Women were under the control of the church and british laws/regulations. In the early 19th century was controlled by a patriarchal structure: legally, women lost any power that they had prior to marriage. Issue of intermarriage two different races or religions. Men who take aboriginal women as wives are publicly shamed: face restrictions from their parents. Women don"t have a say in their marriage prospects: charivari. A communal way of protesting a marriage, especially in lower canada (quebec); in english- speaking canada, called a shivaree . Community members would serenade the new married couple at their home to prevent the couple from having sex. The visitors would refuse to leave until the couple invited them in and gave them food or drink prolonging the couple to having alone time. Were saved for marriages that the community deemed as inappropriate.
