WS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Decision-Making, Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Masculinity
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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.
