Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Indian Act, Reproductive Rights, Equal Voice

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1020E
• Professor: Jen Chisholm

Document Summary

Through the eyes of the canadian women"s movement. Women"s movements in canada: canadian women"s movement has existed to some degree since canada became a. Tuesday, january 27, 2015: after ~100 years of disenfranchisement, first nations women (spearheaded by the. Native women"s association of canada) successfully fought to amend one of the discriminatory policies of the indian act with bill c-31: proposed in 1985, bill c-31 would reverse marriage policy of to reinstate the status of. First nations women who married non- rst nations men and their children: bill didn"t deny or remove status of non- rst nations women who gained status through marriage. First wave feminism in canada: women"s suffrage: debates around the time frame (1890-1930, women"s political advancement. !2: women begin to move from private to public sphere, though, as newman and white contend, poor women had long been engaging in paid work out of necessity.