WS100 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Canada, Homosexuality, Capitalism
WS100
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Essentialism: taking attributes and applying them to all women
Internal Oppression: consistent messages that seem so renowned and mainstream and you feel
those emotions. You start to believe yourself. It multiples in terms of race, ethnicity, etc.
-Indigenous women were known as queens
-Any children were born from that relationship could not have any status, they become really
vulnerable and Métis
-Indigenous people were labelled from queens to savages
-Before Canada became Canada, men were looking for strong women(wide hips, that could
have babies properly)
-The whole idea of manhood was always based on land
-Women were with men helping with agriculture, women were providing the key things, like
sheering wool, making food, taking care of the family, building buildings and infrastructure.
-In many indigenous communities were based on matriarchs
-In terms of agricultural communities, they were the farmers and they had all kinds of
knowledge
-Indigenous women were critically important for the survival of pioneer families
-Masculinity was based on land, and producing male offspring
-Women constantly had to be pregnant and delivering
-Industrial revolution began and extend, women wondered where it left them, the fathers were
not going pass the land to them, they have no money
-Young men also left the farm
- Young women left the farm to urban centers, to find young men to have relationships with
because they had no other choice
-If women deemed to be disobedient they would be tortured severely compared to men.
(example, locked in the closet, and scolded)
-Indigenous women coming and talking to white women again
-Mortality of women and children were increasing at an exponential rate because of the lack of
nutrients and food that they were consuming
-If life is so hard, it’s easier to thik to just self-medicate, for example, alcohol
-The image of masculinity changes, shifts from land owning to steam and steel, it becomes the
image of masculinity and a new image of a female
-To be a female you need to be passive, frail, and men have to protect women, the only safe
place for women is in the home was for white women, it was not the message for indigenous or
black money
-Because white women are so frail, good white women should have a minimum of 12 children
-Canada will continued be civilized if they had the minimum of 12 children
-It was forbidden to bring up birth control pills or use any other contraceptive method
-White women are employing in their home, white women have a status that other women
would never have
-The status of white family, depending on white women never doing any work, no exercise,
because the spermactic theory put out said we are born with all the energy we are given at
birth
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-Women and girls were denied from education, and they did a study in the states of a girl, and
she died, because she became with an illness, she used energy to cause her death, therefore
she should be allowed the same education rights as men
-White women is told that they are asexual, whereas as indigenous and women of color were
known as hypersexual, therefore it gave white men to fully rape indigenous and women of
colour
-Women would be accused of be diagnosed with hysteria, they were put ito etal asylus
-Overectamies, it was the removable of ovaries, it was a message to them that they must do
proper female type of behaviors or else it would happen to them as wel
-It becomes the norm and women start to believe that, white women recognize as themselves
of being weak and frail and that they were simply decorations, and sell themselves
-The cult of true womanhood emerges in the 19 century, they have to provide moral grounding
-Women were legally provide sex whenever they want, men has to be the representative of
them, they were allowed to beat women
-Women realized they had to do something about this, their first impulse, was to look into
factories
-The WCTUWOMEN’“ TEMPERENCE CHRI“TIAN UNION
-Women started food kitchens, for people who had no access to food
-Women became very important because they continued to work with lower wages, they had
to drop off their kids to the orphanage so they could work
-Indigenous women had such a deficit in terms of rights
-Black women told white women how they still had more power than they did
-At the very beginning it was easy for women to have conversation remotely regardless of their
race
-White women had this notation that it only had to be white men and the civilization only
comes from them
-Decision making was made if only they had political power to gain the status
-It was okay for boys to move to a factory when they were 14 because they did not have a
reproductive system
-Indigenous students were not allowed to attend the public schools that white students were
allowed to, they were only allowed to residential schools.
-Black children were not allowed to attend the same schools as white children, their teachers
were only allowed to have the qualifications from an elementary school teacher so they would
not be able to compete with white children
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Document Summary
Essentialism: taking attributes and applying them to all women. Internal oppression: consistent messages that seem so renowned and mainstream and you feel those emotions. It multiples in terms of race, ethnicity, etc. Any children were born from that relationship could not have any status, they become really vulnerable and m tis. Indigenous people were labelled from queens to savages. Before canada became canada, men were looking for strong women(wide hips, that could have babies properly) The whole idea of manhood was always based on land. Women were with men helping with agriculture, women were providing the key things, like sheering wool, making food, taking care of the family, building buildings and infrastructure. In many indigenous communities were based on matriarchs. In terms of agricultural communities, they were the farmers and they had all kinds of knowledge. Indigenous women were critically important for the survival of pioneer families. Masculinity was based on land, and producing male offspring.
