POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Nellie Mcclung, Second-Wave Feminism, Simone De Beauvoir

• School: UBC
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 100
• Professor: Barbara Arneil

Document Summary

Poli 100 - lecture 19 - three waves of feminism. The fight for the vote (1860s-1920s: bring private sphere ethics (mothering) to the public sphere: emphasis of difference and equality. Angry when african americans were given the right to vote: chronology. 1918 white canadian women won the vote. 20th c most countries gave woman the right to vote. The transition from first and second wave: simone de beauvoir: the second sex, 1949. Second wave contributions: concept of gender. One is not born, but becomes a woman": concept of otherness. Women are defined in relation to men: the independent woman. Get into the public sphere, work, organize into collective units. Basic tenets: equality is goal of second wave. Gender roles: women and men are socialized into gender roles. Patriarchal politics comes into the private/home sphere as well as the female body: conscious raising. Bring women together and out of their home. C. betty friedan the feminine mystique, 1963.