Functions of the family - Feminists

Cannot generalise

• Moving towards greater equlaity
• Womens opression is gradually being overcome - Laws against sex descrimination

• Women reproduce the labor force - Unpaid domestic work
• Women = 'reserve army' for cheap labor
• Women in the family are linked to the explotation of the working class
• ANSLEY - Women absorb anger and are 'takers of ****"

• Men are the enemy
• Family and marriages are key institutions to the patriarchal society

• They are all structred theories
• They assume that the nuclear family is dominant