WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Worldpride, Eugenics, Miscegenation

• School: UTSG
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS160Y1
• Professor: June Larkin

Document Summary

Professor diaz, queer unsettlements: diasporic filipinos in canada"s world pride. Women as reproducers of the boundaries of ethnic/ national groups. Saskatchewan female employment act of 1912 prevented oriental men from hiring white women. Prevent miscegenation a term used to described the mixture of races through reproduction. Incorrigible: a person or habit that cannot be corrected, improved, or reformed . Used to label women in ontario who were found drunk or pregnant and unwed. Velma demerson crime was having a chinese boyfriend and being pregnant with a mixed race child prison for 10 months. Ontario female refugees act under which velma was arrested, allowed authorities to jail women between the ages of 16 and 35 for behaviour such as promiscuity, pregnancy out of wedlock. 60 years after velma was apologized to and paid monetary compensation. Problem of essentializing culture something as rigid, fixed, intrinsic characteristics, biological, unchanging. Women are expected to pass culture, customs, and regulation to their children.