Feminism

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  • feminism
    • difference
      • can't generalise women's experiences
        • black women have a more positive veiw on family
          • family is a source of support and resistance against racism
        • white women have more negative view of family
        • criticism
          • disregards shared experiences
    • liberal
      • full equality depends on
        • changed socialisation
        • changed attitudes
        • further reforms
      • Young & Willmott
        • gradual change
      • Critisism: fail to challenge underlying cause of oppression
      • Jenny Somerville
        • heterosexual attraction makes separatism unlikely
        • need fam freindly policies
          • more flexible working
    • marxist
      • capitalism causes women's oppression
        • Fran Ansley: women = "takers of ****" - soak up men's frustrations
        • reserve army of cheap labour that can be let go easily
        • reproduce labour force
      • family must be abolishes same time - socialist revolution
    • radical
      • all societies have been founded on patriarchy
      • men oppress / exploit
      • separatism - live independently of men
      • political lesbianism
      • Germaine Greer
        • political lesbianism
      • criticism: fail to recognise improvements
    • opinions on family
      • dislike regular family
        • dual burden
        • triple shift
        • domestic violence
        • oakley
          • little symmetry
            • work = extension of unpaid domestic
      • like all female/single person households
        • freedom
        • choice
        • financial independance
          • able to be  lone parents
            • disliked by new right
              • crime, poor socialisation
    • opinions on social policy
      • leonard
        • policies appear to help women but don't
          • child benefit - woman
      • however
        • some policies = good
          • equal pay/sex discrimination laws

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