Divorce: lesson 27&28

Question 1

What do feminists believe about social policies?

Answer 1

• society is patriarchal
• institutions work as social control towards women
• designed to maintain inequalities within division of labour in families

Question 2

What policies did feminist identify as patriarchal?

Answer 2

• maternity (12 months) and paternity (2 weeks): reenforces women natural care givers
• childcare: expensive (£250perweek) so one parent stops working to care for child, usually women. Making them financially dependant

Question 3

What does Land believe?

Answer 3

• social policies created with assumption of normal family e.g cereal packet family
• social policies re enforce and promote ideal family e.g tax breaks for married couples

Question 4

What does Drew believe?

Answer 4

• ‘gender regime’: how social policies encourage or discourage equality
• most EU countries are moving towards individualistic regimes
  
  • leads to greater equality

Question 5

How is Drew’s belief on EU countries moving towards equality disproving and approving the feminist argument?

Answer 5

• disprove: there is a trend moving away from patriarchy
• approve: shows social policies are constructed and can change

Question 6

What does Donzelot believe about policing of the family?

Answer 6

• state policies are a form of state control over families
• poor families are policed more
• rejects march of progress belief