A-level Sociology- Feminist Perspective on the Family

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1. 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.
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2. 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.

3. What needs to happen to the family in the radical feminist view?

  • Abolished
  • Enforced

4. What does sociologist Germaine Greer (2000) argue for?

  • For the creation of all-female or 'matrilocal' households as an alternative to the heterosexual family.
  • For all heterosexual households.

5. How do feminists regard gender inequality?

  • Not natural or inevitable, but something created by society.
  • Natural, inevitable and created by society.
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