FEMINISM
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- FEMINISM
- Types of Feminism
- Liberal Feminism
- look to seek equal rights for women and believe individuals should be treated according to their independednt merits
- dont blame capitalism/men for unequal treatment of women - believe laws e.g. Sex Discrimination Act making it easier for women
- Research
- Sommerville (2000)
- radical feminists ignore progress made by women. As women get remarried after divorce they want relationships with men
- Sommerville (2000)
- look to seek equal rights for women and believe individuals should be treated according to their independednt merits
- Marixst Feminism
- look at how women are exploited in a capitalist society by men
- Research
- Ansley (1972)
- the emotional support that wives provide helps to support husbands frustration which comes from stress of working in a capitalist system
- women are 'the takers of ****'
- Veronica Beechey |(1977)
- believes housewives carry out 2 funtions
- 1) to provide care for current & future workers
- 2) to be a cheap reserve army of labour
- believes housewives carry out 2 funtions
- Ansley (1972)
- Radical Feminism
- stress the main enemy of women is patriarchy, main intention is to release women from patriarchy
- Research
- Delphy and Leonard (1992)
- family role maintains patriarchy, family is an economic system whereby men benefit at the expense of women
- Delphy and Leonard (1992)
- Liberal Feminism
- Feminism and the Family
- feminists who research family focus on housework and domestic violence
- also looked at contribution to the economy that women make by doing things e.g. domestic labou
- also looked at contribution to the economy that women make by doing things e.g. domestic labou
- feminists who research family focus on housework and domestic violence
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- legal changes that have benefited women due to feminism
- legislation changes then led to changes in culture
- more women have broken through the 'glass ceiling'
- Weaknesses
- post-modernists suggest some feminists don't realise how much has changed
- functionalism criticise feminists for ignoring positives of family life
- ignoring examples where men are victims of domestic abuse
- some women are far too radical in ideas and want to harm men
- Strengths
- Gender Difference
- highlighted in the way female bodies are used and treated within advertising
- Social Inequalities
- women are concentrated within low pay, low status work, limiting economic power - lead to a dependency on men
- What is Feminism?
- aims to explain h subordinate position in society
- different types of feminists - in general believe women are exploited
- believe society is patriarchal
- Gender Inequalities
- men dominate key institutions of society and are reluctant to lose dominance
- violence ir fear of violence controls women. Evidence that women are exploited and abused by men
- 191 out of 649 MPs are Female
- men dominate key institutions of society and are reluctant to lose dominance
- Types of Feminism
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