Feminism and gender roles

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what is the new man theory?
men can take on different roles
men can do charity work, be caring, look after children but can also be boistrous, play sports and get dirty
they can also take care of their hair and appearance, work in offices in suits but can get muddy and play rough sp
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Elizabeth Bott
what is segregated conjugal role?
this is traditional, the men go to work and the women stay at home looking after children, cooking, cleaning etc
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Elizabeth Bott
what is the joint conjugal role?
both husband and wife go to work, look after the children, cook and clean
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what did Gershuny do a study on?
time budget studies
couples doing housework
who does more from what they have recorded
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Gershuny
what is a lagged adaptation?
the time delay between women working full time and men taking on more responsibility for domestic work
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what was Man-Yee Khans key findings about women and domestic labour?
women still did the bulk of the housework
men didn't pitch in more if their partner worked long hours
she said a higher income gave women more bargaining power
educated women tended to do less than people who left school at 16
women do like doing housewo
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what did Jillian Dunne study about same sex couples?
conducted a survey of 37 cohabiting lesbian couples with young children
no traditional gender roles
on average 60:40 split of household chores
no accident that gay couples avoid the traditional male/female split
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Strengths for having smart technology within the house...
certain jobs are done quicker and without wasting valuable time as a machine does all the work

things may also be done better as a machine is programmed to do specific jobs
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Weaknesses for having smart technology within the house...
by getting a machine to do all the jobs it takes away from the fun of certain things

it also makes people not learn valuable skills and they take technology for granted until it breaks or they have to do something on their own
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what is different about marriage now than it was years ago?
you don't have to wait for marriage to have sex
you aren't frowned upon for having children before marriage
you don't have to get married at all
you can marry the same gender freely
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what is modernity?
it was a time period
all gender roles were fixed
stereotypes
no air travel or free movement
science told the objective truth
morals were fixed
some progress and enlightenment - people began moving away from religion and went to science
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what is globalisation?
air travel became a thing
communication
internet and google
growth
exploitation
outsourcing
free trade
technology boomed
poverty
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what did Gershuny and Robinson (between 1965 and 1985) say about technology and domestic work?
technology has drastically reduced female domestic labour (washing machine and dish washers)
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what did Bittman, Mahmud Rice and Wajcman 2004 say about technology and domestic work?
technology actually increased time spent on domestic labour
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what is postmodernity?
postmodernist Beck 1990 - postmodernity is characterised by increasing emphasis on choices
people no longer have to form relationships based on expectations
Carsten 2004 - more and more people are choosing their own family members not biological
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what did Carstens 2004 say about relationality?
people choose their family members - non biological
these chosen family members define the individual through interactions
this is part of personal life choices
biology becomes less important in defining family and who we are as individuals
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what did Misztal 2013 say about personal life and understanding family life?
Smart suggests that sociologists should explore peoples memories to find about about their family life
says that peoples memories provide important information about family relationships and how they are used to create and reinforce bonds
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what did Rustin 2000 say about personal life and understanding family life?
peoples biographies (videos and pictures) help us to understand how family life is
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what did Jan Pahl 1980 say about money management within a relationship?
money management is a useful aspect of family life to investigate and find out who earns more within the relationship and where the money goes, couples also use partial pooling
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Money management
what is partial pooling?
where couples combine joint and sole accounts
becoming increasingly popular because it provides people with a way of maintaining individual autonomy while also sharing resources
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why is trust important in relationships now a days?
people easily cheat and casual relationships are more of a thing so a higher level of trust is needed within a relationship
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what is embeddedness and why does it help us understand relationships today?
this is the view of how particular relationships are seen by an individual and the source networks it may lead to as well as public perception
the more the relationship is embedded the more likely it is to endure
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what is individualisation?
the greater focus on the individuals needs and desires
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why might respondents not think something is domestic abuse?
they are young
it is emotional and subtle
it is sexual and you just though they were a bit rough
it is new to them and they dont know much about it
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Oakley
What is manipulation?
parents are influencing on their children, they can easily encourage or discourage ways of behaving in their children on the basis of their own consideration of good or bad for a male or a female

boy = boistrous, loud
girl = quiet and reserved
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Oakley
What is canilization?
children are persuaded to show more interest to some concrete toys, adults have their conceptions of toys that are appropriate for a girl and unacceptable for a boy

girl = dolls and horses
boys = trucks and soldiers
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Oakley
What is a verbal appelation?
this is the use of language, parents are usually providing their children with names for toys, them, pets etc in this way children are forced into using certain gender

Girls = sweetheart
boys = handsome
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when Simone De Beauvoir 1973 said 'One is not born, but rather becomes a women' what does this mean?
one isn't born feeling maternal, wanting to marry, wanting to marry a man, wanting to have children, wanting to wear pink and play with dolls and horses they are forced into doing so because it is right for their gender
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