WS290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nellie Mcclung, Emily Murphy, Calendar-Based Contraceptive Methods
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Voting rights, the struggle for suffrage, entered around white women (wasp) Indigenous women were not seen as persons" until 1981. > what role should be the role of women? are they capable of being let out of the private sphere". Maternal feminism: the idea that women are natural caregivers and mothers of the nation" who should participate in public lid because of their perceived propensity for decisions that will result in good care of society. > reinforced gender roles (went out into the public to teach women how to behave in the private sector and how to be a good women (gender roles) Protestant feminist against birth control by arti cial means. Helped increase regulation of women sexuality by imposing wasp notions of morality. > we are going to decide what it means to be a good mother and then teach other people.
