Consequences of inequality

Question 1

What is domestic abuse?

Answer 1

any incident or series of incidents of physical, psychological or sexual abuse by a current or previous partner.

Question 2

What is the triple shift?

Answer 2

The feminist idea that women have to take on paid work, unpaid domestic labour and the emotional support of the family.

Question 3

On average how many women are killed by a current or former male partner?

Answer 3

two per week

Question 4

What did Yearshire find?

Answer 4

On average a women suffers 35 assaults before reporting it.

Question 5

What did Green say?

Answer 5

Women tend to see their free time as time away from both paid work and family commitments. Whereas men consider any time they have outside of paid work as free time.

Question 6

What did Oakley say?

Answer 6

women felt similar feelings of boredom and depression as those felt by line workers in factories.

Question 7

How does family life impact career and job prospects?

Answer 7

Fear of pregnancy. Women are seen as unreliable, as they’re more inclined to take time off if their children are ill. Women are also seen as less committed to their careers.

Question 8

What did Cheal say?

Answer 8

State agencies are reluctant to get involved with domestic abuse because they assume that the family private and individual have free will to leave if they choose.

Question 9

What did Dar say?

Answer 9

It can be difficult to distinguish each incidence of abuse, either because it is continuous or the victim doesn’t fully remember

Question 10

What perspective are Dobash and Dobash?

Answer 10

Radical feminist

Question 11

What did Dobash and Dobash say?

Answer 11

Domestic violence is evidence of the patriarchy and caused by challenges to male authority. Crisis of masculinity.

Question 12

What are the evaluations of Dobash and Dobash?

Answer 12

Elliot- not all men are violent
Men can also be victims
Some groups of women are more likely to be victims than others.

Question 13

What perspective is murray?

Answer 13

New Right

Question 14

What did Murray say?

Answer 14

Domestic violence only occurs in dysfunctional families. There are higher rates of domestic abuse in working classes due to lower moral standards.

Question 15

What are the evaluations of Murray?

Answer 15

Domestic abuse is not only a working class issue
Not all domestic abuse is physical

Question 16

What perspective is Giddens?

Answer 16

Postmodernist

Question 17

What did Giddens say?

Answer 17

domestic violence is caused by emotional intensity within the family. People turn to violence to vent their emotions.

Question 18

What are the evaluations of Giddens?

Answer 18

Not all families are abusive
We can choose who we vent to, even externally to the family

Question 19

What perspective are Ansley, Wilkinson and Pickett?

Answer 19

Marxist feminist

Question 20

What did Wilkinson and Pickett say?

Answer 20

DV is a result of external stress due to social inequality. Having limited resources can lead to stress and violence due to frustration.

Question 21

What did Ansley say?

Answer 21

Women are the takers of shit. Men face oppression at work and take it out on their wives.

Question 22

What are evaluations of the marxist feminist idea?

Answer 22

Doesn’t explain male victims.
It is not limited to the working class.
Not all men are violent to their partners.