6TM Feminism

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What do liberal feminists believe?
they believe that lots of progress has already been made and that we can achieve equality through legislation.
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What are some policies that promote gender equality?
-Equal pay act 1970.
-Sex discrimination act 1975.
-Divorce law reform act 1971.
- Education policies e.g. GIST
- Shared parental leave 2015.
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How do radical feminists criticise liberal feminists?
Radical feminists- we need more than legislation to change deep rooted issues.
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What is one of the main flaws of the liberal feminist view?
-gender pay gap.
- parents socialise children into traditional gender roles.
- triple shift.
- domestic violence.
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How do the external theories criticise liberal feminists?
- Functionalists- we don't need equality- instrumental and expressive roles due to biology.
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What do radical feminists believe?
- Men are the enemy.
- Laws and legislation are not enough for deep rooted problems.
- Nuclear family involves sleeping with the enemy.
- We live in a patriarchal society.
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What does Firestone say?
argues that women's biology and the fact that they have children will always make them inferior to men- they miss out on opportunities.
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How do other feminists criticise radical feminists?
-Marxist-men are not the issue, capitalism is.
- Liberal- they ignore progress women have made.
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How does Sommerville criticise radical feminists?
argues that separatism ignores heterosexual attraction. in some societies women have more power than men.
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How do the new right criticise radical feminists?
-new right theorists would say that the nuclear family is the ideal place for women and are against separatism- encourages the breakdown of traditional norms leading to problems in society.
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what do Marxist feminists believe?
the main cause of gender inequality is capitalism - to achieve equality capitalism needs to be abolished
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how do women contribute to capitalism?
they reproduce the next generation of workers, they socialise them, they maintain the safe haven of the home and they are a reserve army of cheap labour
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what does Fran Ansley say?
describes women as 'takers of ****' who absorb the anger from their husbands caused by capitalism
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what does Barrett say?
ideology of familism - the division of domestic labour is presented as normal, maintaining the idea that women are subordinate to men
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how do radical feminists criticise marxist feminists?
they argue men are the cause of inequality not capitalism
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what are some flaws of marxist feminism?
outdated, workers are no longer exploited. women are still oppressed in communist society
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what to dual systems feminists believe?
domestic labour limits women availability for a full time career and career opportunities
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how does domestic labour and patriarchy become a cycle?
the fact that women have children causes them to depend on men, they often take maternity leave and miss out on promotions, having to work part time but cannot leave because of the societal pressure and family ties
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what do difference feminists believe?
all women are different with different characteristics which will make their lives different - disability, race, religion, age
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how do radical feminists criticise difference feminists?
they argue that all women share the same characteristic of gender which means they all face the same type of oppression based on gender and being subject to gender norms, domestic violence and assault
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what does Naomi Wolf argue?
women today face the pressures of the beauty myth
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what is the beauty myth?
the ideal female image that is promoted by the media and seen as universal, healthy and achievable
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what are the problems with the beauty myth?
it is not universal, realistic or healthy
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what industries promote the beauty myth?
diet, plastic surgery and cosmetics industry
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what are the dangers of the beauty myth?
damage to women mental and physical health and create of an unrealistic expectation for men
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What research methods do feminist prefer?
Interpretivist methods such as unstructured interviews.
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What do feminists believe about positivist methods?
They believe that positivist methods are male stream and conducted by men for men- they focus on male issues.
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Why do feminists like interpretivist methods?
They argue that they are unique and distinctive and allow researchers to see things from a female point of view.
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What do Abbot and Wallace argue?
lots of research use male samples which are unrepresentative of women and that women are ignored or portrayed in a sexist way.
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What was Dobash and Dobash's study?
they spent 6 months spending time with women they interviews to find out about their experience of domestic abuse.
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What was Anne Oakley's study?
She interviewed first time mothers and housewives arguing that in interviews carried out by males, there is a large sense of detachment and the researcher maintains a distance where as female research involved empathy and rapport.
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What does Pawson argue about research techniques used by feminists?
Argues that feminists don't have don't have distinctive research methods and are simply using unstructured interviews.
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What does Pawson argue about feminist research?
Feminists aim to see things through womens point of view to prove their disadvantage, however, not all women will agree that they are disadvantaged in society.
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