Feminism
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- Created on: 31-10-14 16:18
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- Feminism
- Sylvia Walby
- Domestic labour serves men
- Paid work- women are still bound by traditional values
- The state promotes and ideological image of the family that is patricarchal
- Physical Violence by men often occurs in the home
- Women and girls sexuality are limited and controlled by the family more than mens
- The media presents a highly ideological image of women's family roles
- Suffragettes
- Campaigning for the vote
- Bringing about equality
- Marxist Feminism
- Margret Benson
- Unpaid labour done by women supports capitalism
- Man supporting family cant stop working
- Fran Ansley
- Warm Bath Theory (Parsons)
- "women are the takers of ****"
- Wife's emotional support= safety valve
- Evaluation
- Makes big generalizations
- Presumes nuclear family
- Women do fight back
- Margret Benson
- Liberal Feminism
- Jenny Sommerville
- Many men don't take on responsibilities put improved social position= women can "show these men the door"
- Need greater equality in relationships
- Help women cope with everyday life
- Working hours more compatible with family life
- Recognizes changes
- Suggests ways to make feminism more appealing to women
- Studies not backed up with research
- Jenny Sommerville
- Radical Feminism
- Solution
- Men give up their patriarchy
- Women exist without men
- Political lesbianism
- Matrimonial households- sperates
- Abolish nuclear family
- Men= the enemy
- Exploit women
- ****/ sexual assult
- 3/4 divorces applied for by women
- Motherhood is devalued by society
- Andrea Dworkin
- "Marriage is an institution based on **** as a practice"
- Germaine Greer
- Men benefit more from marriage than women
- Increase in divorce- women are unhappy
- "Mother is not a career option"
- Suggests segregation of the sexes
- Evaulation
- Proactive- makes important points about position of women
- Sweeping generalizations
- Doesn't acknowledge progress
- Doesn't suggest practical ideas to improve womens lives
- Solution
- Difference/Post- Structual
- We cannot generalize
- Other theories- heterosexual in nuclear families
- Black feminists- racial oppression (family offers support and resistance)
- Sylvia Walby
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