Feminist views on the role of the family
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- Created on: 01-03-13 19:46
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- Feminist views on the role of the family
- Overall Feminist View
- Critical view of the family, oppress women, unequal division of labour, domestic violence against women and gender equality
- Liberal Feminists
- Recognise the changes and achievements made by women e.g. Sex DiscriminationAct
- Believe we are moving towards greater equality - Gradual progress
- Roles are shared more
- The way parents socialise their sons and daughters is more equal that in the past - Similar aspirations for sons and daughters
- Criticism of Liberal by Radical Feminists - Fail to challenge the underlying causes of women's oppression and for believing that changes in the law or attitudes will be enough to bring equality
- Marxist Feminists
- Main problem is capitalism
- Women reproduce the labour force - Unpaid domestic work and socialising next generation of workers
- Women absorb anger: Fran Ansley - 'Women are takers of ****'
- Women are a 'reserve army' of cheap labour, take on extra work when they are needed
- Radical Feminists
- Argue that all societies have been founded on patriarchy and that the key division in society is between men and women
- Men are the enemy and the source of women's oppression, the family and marriage are the key institutions
- Men benefit from women's unpaid domestic labour and sexual services
- They dominate women through domestic or sexual violence, or the threat of it
- The patriarchal system needs to be overturned, they argue the only way to do this is through seperation
- Political lesbianism - Heterosexual relationships are like sleeping 'with the enemy'
- Germaine Greer - Creation of all female households
- Criticism of radical by liberal feminists - Jenny Sommerville: Fail to recognise that women's position has improved greatly - Better access to divorce, jobs etc.Seperation is unlikely to work, women have yet to achieve full equality
- Overall Feminist View
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