Colonisation have both internal and external

∙ Colonisation have both internal and external mechanisms:
§ Externa l: Institutions (state) such as the government and church,
administers the people by various policies and establish control (& power)
through legislation.
§ Internal : The church, converts the minds of the colonized.
§ State : structural colonialism
§ Church : cultural colonialism
∙ Difference between mainstream feminism and the aboriginal women’s movement:
§ The objectives of NWAC and TWA are not feminist in nature, and do not
strive for complete “equality of men and women” in all areas.
2. Biological producers of members of ethnic collectivities and Women are
reproducers of the boundaries of ethnic/national groups.
∙ Women as mothers, biological reproducers, cultural reproducers
∙ Saskatchewan Female Employment Act of 1912: prevented “oriental” men
from hiring white women. [June Larkin]
∙ Prevention of miscegenation (mixture of races through reproduction).
∙ For example: the case of Velma Demerson, she was labeled as “incorrigible”
and she’s been arrested as she was pregnant with a ‘oriental’ man’s child under
Ontario Female Refugees Act.ceD
3. Women as transmitters of culture (June Larkin)
∙ Women are seen as transmitter of a culture but at the same time, women help in
building the culture.
∙ What is culture? Who is culture?
∙ Culture: such as clothing style.
∙ For example: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, they
wanted to critique the notion of how women are forced to dress, and the
focused on the issue of education for women.
∙ The fight was not against an oppressive culture, but it against an oppressive
regime.

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