About Canada: Women's Rights (Mitchell, Penni)

Question 1

Aboriginal women had a different influence than European women in history. What were elements of their influence?

Answer 1

1. Matters of the state
2. Negotiated peace accords between nations
   2b. also integral to the early fur trade

Question 2

Black women notably did what in earlier history?

Answer 2

1. Led efforts to help fleeing enslaved people settle in Canada
2. Among the first publishers of abolitionist newspapers in Canada West

Question 3

When did the first recorded resistance of women in Canada take place? What was this resistance fighting
for?

Answer 3

1. Early colonial beginnings; December 1757
2. Montreal women marched to the residence to Governor Vaudreuil to protest his decision to end the distribution of bread during the Seven Years War

Question 4

When was the first women’s rights treatise published and by who? What did this declaration entail?

Answer 4

1.1791, Olympe de Gouges
2. Her declaration called for full equal rights for women under law, within marriage, and in society at large (including the right to vote and to serve as legislators and magistrates)

Question 5

In British women’s salons, what idea did the blue stockings advance?

Answer 5

That women were men’s moral and intellectual equals.

Question 6

Who made up blue stocking societies in Britain?

Answer 6

Women of the middle classes.

Question 7

One blue stocking writer set out the cause for girls’ education. Who has she been identified as? How did she set out this cause and when?

Answer 7

1. Maria
2. A letter in the Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser in London; 1782

Question 8

The term “bluestocking” is similar to the term “bra-burner.” What does this label suggest? Why was it chosen?

Answer 8

1. A label that suggested a low station in life
2. Blue stockings were the common worsted stockings worn in Europe in the 18th century.

Question 9

In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote what piece? What did this piece argue?

Answer 9

1. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
2. She argued that women should participate in all aspects of life as well as challenged the notion that women were naturally inferior to men.

Question 10

Following what conference did the term feminist begin to be used? What did this term mean upon its
conception?

Answer 10

1. The First International Women’s Conference (in Paris, 1892)
2. Referred to the advocacy of equal rights of women

Question 11

As women gained a political voice, they coalesced around one specific idea. What was this idea?

Answer 11

That society should take care of its citizens.

Question 12

Different views within the feminist movement often confused outsiders and sometimes caused arguing among group members. What is the benefit of this movement having different views?

Answer 12

The diversity of those who first fought for women’s rights have enabled feminism to be
- adaptable,
- transformative, and
- able to redefine itself
with each new generation

Question 13

What is a gantowisa?

Answer 13

An Iroquois woman acting in an official capacity; they ran local clan councils

Question 14

In 1713, York Factory trading post records describe a young Dene woman who lived in what is now northern Manitoba. Who is this woman? What is her importance?

Answer 14

1. Thanadelthur
2. She is credited with brokering the difficult May 1716 peace accord, which helped the Hudson’s Bay Company expand trade to the Churchill River Post the following year.