SOSC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nanny, Gender Equality, Industrial Revolution

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2000
• Professor: Annette Bickford

Document Summary

Women and industrialism: the gender division of labour in historical perspective. Lecture outline: pre-european gender egalitarianism; communal societies pre-industrial settler society interdependence; productive work gender. Specialized tasks industrial/wage (cid:494)housework(cid:495) named; men did less; women did more; doctrine of separate spheres; cult of domesticity. Gendered division of labor exists in societies to organize ourselves. In canada, there were 500,000-2,00,000 inhabitants before europeans arrive, but the number decreased tremendously (genocide) Different worldviews on spirituality, science, gender native indians. First contact between the two: europeans very different, aboriginals were afraid and curious about the europeans. Gender relationships: everything was twice as fast as today, not too many years. Indigenous peoples(cid:495) reactions might cover a spectrum that ranged from open- mindedness, curiousity, and hospitality to suspicion, distaste, and fear . When europeans colonized, they had very few regards of aboriginals. According to euros, aboriginals did not use the land useful, land was being wasted, activity.