SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: John Stuart Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft, Liberal Feminism
28 Feb 2016
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John stuart mill, the subjection of women 1869: appeals to the rationality of intellects of the highest class . There are four (4) limitations to liberal emphasis on equality rights: 1. Classist: women doing sewing, emphasis on abstract rights and abstract equality actually obscures the fundamentally unequal social arrangements of class-based societies like canada, 3. Does not count for pregnancy, childbirth and childcare as obstacles to economic independence (cid:1) (cid:1) Traditional way of discussing history of women"s movement. Each of these waves is said to describe a period of intense activism and social change. 1st wave: late 19th century to early 20th century. Women"s movement is known as a social movement (cid:1) (cid:1) Goal: basic political and legal rights for women. Conservative: rights based on natural role of women as wife and mother (maternal feminism) - essentialist, natural purity/morality of women, racist.
