Feminist View of the Family
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- Feminist View of the Family
- Liberal
- Somerville suggests that their has been progress for women as they have more choice about their family and work however she argues that there are still inequalities within family life.
- Ann Oakley identified 4 ways in which children were socialised into their gender roles. Those were; Manipulation, Canalisation, Verbal Appelation and Differentiated Activities
- Duncombe and Marsden argued that women perform,the 'triple shift'- emotional, house and paid work
- Radical
- Delphy and Leonard argued that the family is structured so that men dominate.
- Also argued that besides housework and paid work, women also performed 'sexual and reproductive work'.
- Duncombe and Marsden argued that women perform,the 'triple shift'- emotional, house and paid work
- Also argued that besides housework and paid work, women also performed 'sexual and reproductive work'.
- Kate Millett argued that interactions between men and women, especially those around family relations, were inherently patriarchal, and benefitted men’s power in the household over women
- S. Firestone argued that women are exploited for sexual and reproductive reason, as a result women become financially independent on men. She argued that the only way to be equal was for the emancipation of the family
- Delphy and Leonard argued that the family is structured so that men dominate.
- Marxist
- Ansley argued that wives acted as an 'safety valve- where they absorbed their husbands
- Benston argues that women act as reproduction of next labour force who will work for the capitalist system. Women are also a 'reserve army of cheap labour' in time of labour shortage.
- Supporting Ansley, Bernard argued that marriage benefit men more than woman: married women have a higher level of morbidity than unmarried women or married men.
- Overall ideas
- Gender is socially constructed
- Learn gender via primary socialisation- the family enforces this.
- We live in a patriarchal society which teaches women to be subservient to men.
- Evidence to support them
- Elizabeth Stanko's research found that 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men, experience domestic violence in their lifetime. Furthermore, 10% of women experience abuse in any given year.
- Could also use Women's Aid
- James Nazroo's research found that men's violence was intently to cause harm whereas women's was often is self-defense. Also men's violence was often intimidating and threatening.
- Could also use Women's Aid
- James Nazroo's research found that men's violence was intently to cause harm whereas women's was often is self-defense. Also men's violence was often intimidating and threatening.
- Could use examples of segregated conjugal roles such as Lader's research and Edgell's finding on decision making.
- Elizabeth Stanko's research found that 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men, experience domestic violence in their lifetime. Furthermore, 10% of women experience abuse in any given year.
- CONFLICT THEORY
- Liberal
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