POLS 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Advocacy Group, Henrietta Edwards, Louise Mckinney

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2110
• Professor: Cheryl Collier

Document Summary

First wave of the canadian women"s movement: the wave analogy, social movement definition (v. interest grp, theories, activism, accomplishments, theories. The wave analogy identifies peak/surge moments in a social movement. Like waves of an ocean, the end of a wave does not mean the water disappears. Similarly, movement activism does not stop between waves" (60). Expressions of collective action made up of heterogeneous political, social and cultural networks engaged in a continual process of disputing, compromising, redefining, and adapting identities, strategies and goals (60-61: interest groups: Aimed directly at state: social movements: Peace, women, aboriginal, environmental, civil rights represent identify formation and validation, 2 main theories between the late 1800s to the early 1900s ( ending" with women"s suffrage) Liberal feminism mary woolstencraft (1792) a vindication of the rights of women less domination of women and less subordination under liberalism. Women should be seen as rational citizens" same capacity as men.