POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Third-Wave Feminism, Radical Feminism, Liberal Feminism
18 Mar 2016
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Paries headed by females tend to receive less coverage than comparably placed paries led by males. First-past-the-post systems as an obstacle to increasing the presence of women. Proporional representaion systems allow candidate lists to alternate between males and females. Increasing the number of female mp may not automaically lead to parliament taking women"s issues more seriously due to discipline. First wave of canadian feminism: from confederaion to 1950. Began in the inal three decades of the 19th century. Emphasis on chrisian values and maintaining canada"s character as a white setler society. Maternal feminism accepted women"s roles as guardians of the home, thereby making poliical paricipaion a duty. Focus on moral issues and the need for social reform, e. g. the women"s chrisian. Naional council of women (ncw) founded in 1893 as a network of women"s organizaions. Ncw advocated for women"s poliical acivity in order to improve society. The ncw is signiicant because it provided a space for women"s organizing.
