Domestic labour, power relationships and the Family

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  • Domestic labour, power relationships and the Family
    • The distribution of domestic labour in the home
      • Young and Wilmott
        • The domestic division of labour in working-class families were clearly segregated.
          • By the 1970's men's and women's attitudes towards the distribution of labour in the home had undergone a radical change so that in both middle-class and working-class households, conjugal roles were more likely to be jointly shared
        • By the 1970's men's and women's attitudes towards the distribution of labour in the home had undergone a radical change so that in both middle-class and working-class households, conjugal roles were more likely to be jointly shared
    • Emotion work
      • Duncombe and Marsden
        • Women take the major responsibility for the emotional wellbeing of their partners and children, in addition to paid work and responsibility for housework and childcare
      • Gabb
        • Activities women routinely do  not only serve a pragmatic purpose, but they also perform a symbolic function, with mothers literally constructing a sense of family community and sense of belonging
      • Hochschild
        • Women are rarely thanked for t their emotional work because wht they do is gender bound - it is seen by other family members of their family as part of their gendered duty
    • Lesbian coupes and gender scripts
      • Gillian Dunne
        • The traditional division of domestic labour continues today because of deeply ingrained 'gender scripts'- The traditional or conventional social expectations that set out the different gender roles that heterosexual men and women in relationships are expected to play.
    • Explanations for inequalities in domestic labour and power
      • Biological
        • Parsons
          • Women are 'naturally' suited to the caring of the young because of the fact that they physically bear children
      • Familial and patriarchal ideology
        • Bernandes
          • Masculinity and  fatherhood are still associated with paid work
        • Leonard
          • Patriarchal idea underpins dominant ideas about  both paid work and domestic labour.
        • O'Brien and Shamlit
          • The ideological beliefs about masculine and feminine roles have discouraged men from participating in or taking responsibility for ' women's work'
    • Feminism
      • Marxist feminism
        • Cox and Federici
          • Under capitalism  women have assumed  the role of breeders, housewives and consumers of the goods manufactured by capitalism's factories.
      • Radical feminism
        • Delphy
          • The housewife is created by the patriarchy and is geared to the service of men and their interests

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