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Feminist view on families and households
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Radical feminists argue that patriarchy is the main cause of Liberal feminists: Difference feministswomen’s oppression. The family and marriage are key patriarchal
institutions. Argue that gender inequality is Argues that not all women share
gradually being overcome through the same experiences of
Men benefit from women’s unpaid domestic labour and legal reforms and policy changes e.g oppression – women of different
sexual services. equal pay. ethnicities, class backgrounds
Men dominate women through violence or the threat of it. Challenges stereotypes and changing e.t.c may have different
Patriarchal system must be overturned, and the family abolished. people’s attitudes and socialisation. experiences of the family
Some may believe in ‘political lesbianism’ and complete
separatism from men
Feminists argue that it oppresses women, and have focused on issues such as the unequal division of labour and
domestic violence against women.
They do not regard gender inequality as natural or inevitable, but as something created by society
Marxist feminists – argue that capitalism is the main cause of women’s Evaluations:
oppression in the family and this performs several functions for Radical feminists ignore the importance of class and ethnic
capitalism inequality e.g white middle class women may have more
Reproducing the labour force, women socialise the next power than black working class men
generation of worker and service the current one, for free There appears to be a correlation between capitalist
Absorbing men’s anger that would otherwise be directed at development and women’s liberation – suggesting that
capitalism. Wives soak up their husband’s frustration that comes capitalism has the opposite effect from that suggested by
from being exploited at work Marxist Feminists.
A reserve of cheap labour, when not needed, women workers It is more practical – the system is more likely to accept small
return to their domestic role policy changes, while it would resist revolutionary change
(Liberal feminists)
Marxists feminists argue that women’s oppression in the family is linked Feminists may paint too negative and gloomy a picture. While
to exploitation of the working class. Therefore the family must be some families may be unequal and male-dominated, there
abolished at the same time as capitalism may well be families that are much more equal.
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