Feminist theories of Family
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- Feminist theories of Family
- Radical Feminists
- men are the enemy and the source of womens oppression and exploitation
- family and marriage are key institutions in patriarchal society
- men benefit from womens unpaid domestic labour and sexual services
- Delphy & Leonard - women make the main contribution and mean recieve the main benefit
- Purdy - advocates that women should go on baby strike, withdraw all sexual and reproductive services until equality is achieved
- Germain Greer - creation of all matrifocal households as an alternative for heterosexual family
- Liberal Feminnism
- womens oppression is being gradually overcome through changing attitudes and through changes in laws such as Sex Discimination Act
- further equality will depend on further reforms and changes in the attitudes and socialisation patterns of both sexes
- Somerville - radical feminists fail to recognise womens positions have improved considerably
- better access to divorce, better job opportunities, control over their own fertility
- women are yet to achieve full equality
- there is a need for family friendly policies such as more flexible working
- Argue that we cannot generalise about women's experiences
- Difference Feminism
- Calhoun - focuses on lesbian families. modern life is characterised by choice and lesbian and gay families are chosen families.
- Nicholson - alternative families are often better than traditional ones for the women
- lesbian and heterosexual women, wc and mc women of different cultures and ethnicities have very different experience of he family
- Difference Feminism
- ignores positiveaspects of family life- some women may not feel oppressed in the family
- Ignores a trend towards Gender equality
- women have more rights in the work place and the home than ever before
- women are not as oppressed as some of the radical feminists suggest
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