FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nellie Mcclung, Emily Murphy, Sexual Sterilization Act Of Alberta

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Corrie Scott

Document Summary

I had to convince them of my validation as a human being. It was the attempt to convince them that made me realize that i was still a slave. But when you trot your ignorance before the world as though it were part of. What does the word oppression mean to you: a certain group doesn"t have equal resources or rights, whole systems, the root of the word oppression is the word press. Sometimes press is used things or people who are caught between forces or barriers. They are so related to each other that they restrict each other: an unjust or excessive sense of use of power, oppression is not one force or barrier, whole system of forces and barriers. This is why oppression can be hard to identify. A whole network of systemically related barriers: metaphor: a bird cage: pg 4+ 5 the politics of reality: marilyn frye.