A-level Sociology- Feminist Perspective on the Family

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What are the four types of feminism?
Liberal, Marxist, Difference, Radical
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What view do feminists take of the family?
Critical
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How do feminists regard gender inequality?
Not natural or inevitable, but something created by society.
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What do feminists believe the family does to women?
Oppresses them.
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What are liberal feminists concerned with?
Campaigning against sex discrimination and for equal rights and opportunities for women.
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What do liberal feminists believe we are moving towards?
Greater equality- which depends on the further reforms and changes in the socialisation and attitudes of both sexes.
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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).
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What can be used to support the views of liberal feminists?
That men are doing more domestic labour and the way parents socialise their sons and daughters is more equal now than in the past- with them now having similar aspirations for them.
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How have other feminists criticised liberal feminists?
Liberal feminists fail to challenge the underlying causes of womens oppression, and believe that changes in the law or in people's attitudes will be enough to bring equality.
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What do marxist and radical feminists believe is needed instead?
Far-reaching changes to deep-rooted social structures.
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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
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What is an example of the change in the law that liberal feminists would favour?
Sex Discrimination Act (1975)
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What do marxist feminists argue is the main cause of women's oppression in the family?
Capitalism
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What functions do marxist feminists believe that women perform for capitalism?
-reproducing the labour force -absorbing anger that would otherwise be directed at capitalism -being a reserve army of cheap labour
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Under the marxist feminist perspective, how do women reproduce the labour force?
By socialising the next generation of workers and maintaining and servicing the current one.
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What does Fran Ansley (1972) have to say about the family?
Wives are 'takers of ****' who soak up the frustration their husbands feel because of the alienation and exploitation they suffer at work as a result of capitalism.
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What does Fran Ansley do for marxism?
Allows them to explain male domestic violence against women.
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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.
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In the marxist feminist view, the oppression of women can be linked to what?
The exploitation of the working class.
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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
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What do radical feminists argue that all societies have been funded on?
Patriarchy-rule by men
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For radical feminists, who is the key division in society between?
Men and women
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Which feminist perspective believes that family and marriage are the key institutions in patriarchal society?
Radical
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According to radical feminists, who do men benefit from women?
They benefit from women unpaid domestic labour and from their sexual services.
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How do men dominate women in the radical feminist view?
Through domestic and sexual violence- or the threat of it.
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What needs to happen to patriarchal society in the radical feminist view?
Overturned
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What is separatism?
The radical feminists argument that women must organise themselves to live independently of men.
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What needs to happen to the family in the radical feminist view?
Abolished
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What does sociologist Germaine Greer (2000) argue for?
For the creation of all-female or 'matrilocal' households as an alternative to the heterosexual family.
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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'
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What does Somerville (2000) have to say about heterosexual attraction?
Heterosexual attraction makes it unlikely that separatism would work.
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What do difference feminists argue?
That we cannot generalise about women's experiences. With lesbian and heterosexual women, white and black women, middle-class and working class women have very different experiences of the family from one another.
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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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