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Family is patriarchal and oppressive to women.
• Liberal feminists
• Marxist feminists
• Radical feminists
• Difference/Intersectional feminists |
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Concerned with campaigning against sex discrimination and for equal rights and opportunities for women.
• accept progress has been made through gradual changes in people's attitudes and the law (e.g. Sex Discrimination Act in 1975 and 'genderquake')
• further progress is needed - attitudes and more legal reforms |
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The main cause of women's oppression is capitalism, not men.
• Women reproduce the labour force (unpaid domestic labour, socialisation of next generation of workers and maintaining the current one)
• Women absorb anger that would otherwise be directed at capitalism. (Ansley, 2012: 'takers of sh*t' (explains DV against women))
• Women are a reserve army of cheap labour when extra workers are needed, then are later 'let go' |
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All societies have been founded on patriarchy.
• men are the enemy - source of women's oppression and exploitation
• family and marriage are the key institutions in patriarchal society (men benefit from women's domestic labour and sexual services, dominate women through threat/use of DV)
Family needs to be abolished (through separatism, Greer (2000) argues for creation of matrifocal households) and patriarchal society overturned |
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| DIFFERENCE/INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISTS |
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All other feminist approaches tend to assume that most women live in conventional nuclear families and that they share a similar experience of family life.
• we cannot generalise this way (ethnicity, gender and class affects everyone's experiences of the family) |
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| CRITICISMS OF MARXIST FEMINISM |
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• see the nuclear family as only benefitting the ruling class and men - ignores women who choose to live in such families because they enjoy the experience of being a mother/partner etc
• assumes nuclear family is dominant - ignores family diversity! |
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| CRITICISMS OF RADICAL FEMINISM |
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• fail to account for recent social and economic changes such as the educational success of young females
• Somerville: they probably exaggerate the exploitation in the family, many women still value relationships with men based on mutual love and respect rather than exploitation
• ignore women who see motherhood as fulfilling and rewarding or they dismiss this experience as less rewarding than having a career
• overemphasise the nuclear family - ignores family diversity! |
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| CRITICISMS OF LIBERAL FEMINISM |
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• rather rosy view, reflecting experiences of white m/c professional groups of women - women from poorer parts of society may have had worse experiences (economically/roles in family etc)
• other feminists: fails to challenge the underlying causes of women's oppression
- argues that changes in law or attitudes aren't enough to bring equality |
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| KEY THEORIST: GERSHUNY (1994) |
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Found that women who didn't work did 83% of housework and wives who worked part-time = 82%
Full-time = 73% |
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• 'Housework', 1974
Qualitative study of 40 interviews
• 15% of husbands had a high level of participation in housework and 25% in childcare |
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| KEY THEORIST: DUNNE (1999) |
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• 'Genderscripts
Same-sex study of 37 cohabiting lesbian couples
- more likely to describe family as equal
- equal importance to both partners' careers
- view childcare positively |
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• DV accounts for 15% of all crime
• 1 in 5 young men think that abuse or violence against women is acceptable
• on average, 2 women killed by their partner/ex in UK each week
• 1 DV incident reported every min to police (UK) but most go unreported |
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