SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Private Sphere, Equal Protection Clause, Reproductive Rights
23 Oct 2015
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The women"s movement and equality rights in canada. If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of woman, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. Supreme court of canada (reference re meaning of the word persons in s. 24 of the bna act, 1928: liberal equality rights and the intellectual roots of the (white, middle-class) canadian woman"s movement position of women remains problematic. Does not lead to larger social and legal equality: classism; they were concerned largely with women of their class. Intellects of the highest class; women from the upper class can reason just as much as men can. Wollstonecraft; gender based education and work: race and racism not a matter of interest. Wollstonecraft; problematic because of the slavery (white privileged women) of white women of her class. Women"s movement was relative to canadian law.
