SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Christabel Pankhurst, Millicent Fawcett, Annie Kenney

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Liam Kilmurray

Document Summary

Perceptions of the women"s movement depend in part on our conception of a social movement; if we understand social movements only as publicly visible contentious politics, we miss much of the ongoing feminist activity . Thought to have emerged with ancient hominids. Australophithecines like some apes, had a dimorphic imbalance of some 40% A lesser capacity for violence, as well as work, determines her subordination. Men are still about 8% larger than females. Held in great esteem, because of their childbirth. Paleolithic and mesolithic cultures in europe have been described as practicing goddess worship. Disappears with agricultural societies children become a strain on agricultural societies when there are too many of them. Originally when a skeleton had a weapon, agricultural tool, etc, it was deemed a man (also can look at pelvic spread) and history became patriarchal. Doctrine that advocates equal rights for women.