SOCB22H3 Lecture Notes - Cultural Imperialism, Heterosexism, Andrea Smith (Academic)
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Performativity: judith butler made up this word, that gender is like a performance (but not fully) in the sense that you can slightly perform your gender. There is an element to it that is not deliberate and not entirely by choice. Aboriginal women are 5 times more likely than other women to die as a result of violence. At least 600 aboriginal women have gone missing or been murdered in the last 30 years in canada. Both could be under-reported because race isn t always recorded in police records. Colonization as a patriarchal and racial project that shapes notions of gender and race. Historical background: gender and race in canada. Identify colonial ideologies, practices, and institutions that shape gender (through race) Notions of white femininity mobilized for women s emancipation participated in colonizing mission: 1st wave of feminism. Voting rights, but this ended up interiorizing women of non-white backgrounds.
