let’s discuss the option to choose
option 1: Choose one of the Calls to Justice that has not yet been implemented.
Investigate the proposed change. Using a feminist lens, consider the
barriers to implementing this change (e.g., resistance from specific levels of government, shifting public attitude, lack of funds, lack of
leadership, etc.). For this option you would want to first summarize the
call, explain what it’s meant to do, then go through the above process.
Note that you aren’t meant to suggest here how the call should be
implemented, but what might make implementation difficult (e.g. the
patriarchy!).The investigation will take the form of a six-page, double-spaced
paper. Specifically, this paper asks you to take one section or aspect of
the report and: 1) apply a feminist lens (i.e. something this course has
been asking you to do throughout) to the section or aspect; and, 2) to
provide your paper as a sort of companion to or expansion upon this
section or aspect. Below are two options you can take to do this. Note
that neither should require extensive external research. You can use
terminology and concepts we’ve learned in class and you can of course
bring in some background information for clarity or context, but the
focus should be on the report itself.
Options
Choose one of the Calls to Justice that has not yet been implemented.
Investigate the proposed change. Using a feminist lens, consider the
barriers to implementing this change (e.g., resistance from specific
option 2: Take a specific section or aspect of the final report (for example,
chapter 2 “Indigenous Recognition of Power and Place”) and, using a
feminist lens, do an explication of that section. You will note that the
report itself, titled Reclaiming Power and Place, is meant to show the
discrepancies between how women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people are
valued in their own culture and how they are (not) valued in western
culture. As such, your investigation will explain how the existing power
structures and ideological tools that are in place (settler colonialism,
patriarchy, sexism, Othering, stereotyping) have resulted in these
behaviours.
