6. What does Somerville (2000) have to say about heterosexual attraction?
Heterosexual attraction makes it unlikely that separatism would work.
Heterosexual attraction can be converted to homosexual attraction to fit with the idea of separatism.
7. How do feminists regard gender inequality?
Not natural or inevitable, but something created by society.
Natural, inevitable and created by society.
8. What do many radical feminists argue for?
'political lesbianism'- the idea that all heterosexual relationships are inevitably oppressive because they involve 'sleeping with the enemy'
For capitalist society to be overturned by a revolution.
9. What is an example of the change in the law that liberal feminists would favour?
Sex Discrimination Act (1975)
Equal rights for homosexual couples/families
10. Which feminist perspective believes that family and marriage are the key institutions in patriarchal society?
Liberal
Radical
Difference
Marxist
11. Which feminist perspective believes that men are the enemy and the source of women exploitation and oppression?
Difference
Radical
Liberal
Marxist
12. What are liberal feminists concerned with?
Campaigning against sex discrimination and for equal rights and opportunities for women.
Ensuring that all families become 'matrilocal'- consisting of all females.
13. How are women a reserve army of cheap labour?
They are taken on when extra workers are needed and are then let go when not needed, so they return to their primary role as unpaid domestic labour.
They are payed far less than men are for doing the exact same job.
14. How do other feminists perspectives criticise difference feminists?
They believe difference feminism neglects the fact that all women share many of the same experiences. E.G. they all face a risk of domestic violence and sexual assault, low pay etc.
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15. In the marxist feminist view, the oppression of women can be linked to what?
The exploitation of the working class.
Domestic violence statistics.
16. Which feminist perspective argues that the family must be abolished at the same time as a socialist revolution replaces capitalism with a classless society?
Marxist
Difference
Liberal
Radical
17. According to radical feminists, who do men benefit from women?
They benefit from women unpaid domestic labour and from their sexual services.
By getting married to them and having children.
18. Who is a key liberal feminist and what do they argue?
Jenny Somerville (2000)- that women's position has improved considerably- with better access to divorce
Greer (2000)- for the creation of all female or 'matrilocal' households as an alternative to the heterosexual family.
19. What does Fran Ansley do for marxism?
Allows them to explain male domestic violence against women.
Allows them to better understand how capitalism rules over the nuclear family.
20. What do liberal feminists argue about about women's oppression?
That it is being gradually overcome through changing people's attitudes and through changes in the law such as the sex discrimination act (1975).
That it is getting much worse, women are oppressed now in the family more than ever with the threat of domestic violence being ever present.
