Family theories: Feminism
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- Created on: 29-03-17 09:37
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- Family theories: Feminism
- Jenny Somerville - March of progress view that women have come a long way, new laws e.g. allowing lesbians to marry
- Liberal feminists are criticised as being ethnocentric, a white middle class view
- Marxist feminists are exploited by capitalism and the patriarchy - they reproduce the workforce, absorb anger and are a reserve army of cheap labour
- Fran Ansley - women absorb the anger from their husbands. The anger is caused by frustration of the capitalist economy
- Radical feminists - women have to work a triple shift (Duncombe and Marsden)
- 'Dark side to family life' - rejects view of value consensus e.g. domestic violence, divorce
- Firestone - when women get married they are signing up for a life of patriarchy - women should group up and live independently from men
- Jenny Somerville - March of progress view that women have come a long way, new laws e.g. allowing lesbians to marry
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