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Question 1

What is the liberal feminists view of the family?

Answer 1

• Full gender equality has not been achieved but progress has been made

Question 2

What do marxist feminists believe about the family?

Answer 2

• The main cause of women’s oppression in the family is capitalism

Question 3

Who described the ideology of familism? 5F

Answer 3

• Barrette (marx fem)

Question 4

What did Barrett say are the reasons that women are over worked in the family?

Answer 4

• Women do more domestic labour
• Women do more emotional
  labour
• Women reproduce the worm force
• Women are a reserve army of labour

Question 5

What do radical feminists believe about the family?

Answer 5

• Family is patriarchal
• Men benefit from women’s domestic labour, emotional work, sexual services
• Women are dominated through domestic and sexual violence threats

Question 6

What do radical feminists believe the solution is to equality in the family?

Answer 6

• Political lesbianism

- All female households

Question 7

Criticisms of radical feminists view of family

Answer 7

• Lib feminists say that radical feminists ignore the progress that has been made
• Which include: better access to divorce, control over fertility, ability to choose whether to marry or cohabit