History 2201E Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: First Nations, National Conversation, Florence Bird
2 May 2018
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Second wave Feminism
- Youth in Canadian society looking for changes from conservative norms that came out
the war
o Women want changes too
- First wave around WW1 – arguing for the vote
o Considered full citizens in Canada
- Mid 1960s, Anglophone and francophone women organizations began to regroup
- Campaigning for change
o Begins in Quebec
- Led by Therese Casgrain – francophone women’s movement
o Since the suffrage Leagues, FFQ
o An umbrealla group – have other women’s organizations
o Importance: had no religious ties
o Unusual in Quebec – quiet revolution
▪ Rejecting the presence of the catholic church
o Wanted to remove abortion from the criminal code
o 1966 – saw the formation of the Association feminine d’education et d’action
sociale
▪ Representing Quebec’s housewives
• Produced studies on women’s work in the homes and in family
businesses
▪ Two examples of divergence: secular approach vs traditionalist outlook
- Indigenous group
o Homemakers’: needs represented, still exists
o From a Canadian reserve: Mohawk, around montreal
▪ Appealing for fairness in the sense that when an indigenous woman
married a non-indigenous man, she would lose her status
- Regional resurgence: Therese Casgrain and the Federation des Femmes de Quebec
(FFQ); Association feminine d’education et d’action sociale; Indian Homemakers’
Association; A group of Women from a Canadian Indian Reserve
- The Royal Commission on the Status of Women (1967) and Report (1970) Working
Women and Daycare (CBC 1967); Liberation Movement
o Royal: national outcome of the movement
▪ Result of a coalition of womens groups across canada
▪ Need national attention
o Wanted a national conversation on women’s issues in a sustained effort
▪ PM Pearson & Laura Savia a leader
• A serious threat to the PM’s voting support
• By 1965, women voting as much as men (same rate)
▪ Liberal gov’t agreed
o Got submissions from a variety of provinces – representative
o Report was a bestseller in Canada
o Women’s lives as workers, wives, strains (gender relations with husbands)
o Mostly from white women
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