Domestic Violence

Question 1

What is the radical feminist argument of domestic violence?

Answer 1

domestic violence is a core feature of patriarchal society with women as the primary victims.

Question 2

define domestic violence and give the different types.

Answer 2

violence in the family, household, or intimate relationships.

intimate partner (gender based) violence,child abuse and elder abuse.

Question 3

what is the first radical feminist analysis

Answer 3

1976 Domestic Violence Act were put in place to combat domestic violence - rape in marriage became illegal in 1991

Question 4

what is the second radical feminist argument

Answer 4

women liberation movement
set women’s shelters or refuges where they could escape from the violence in the household

Question 5

What is the second evidence for radical feminists

Answer 5

refugee research 2023 - 25% of women experience domestic abuse in their lifetime and 84% of victims are women.

Question 6

Who is the evidence for radical feminists?

Answer 6

Evelyn Rose (2022)

Question 7

What did Rose argue?

Answer 7

75% of the reported cases of domestic abuse do not result in legal punishment for abusers. The likely figure is much higher because many victims are unwilling to report abuse.

Question 8

What did marxist feminists argue

Answer 8

domestic violence is caused by capitalism and working-class women are the primary victims of abuse in the household, families, and intimate relationships

Question 9

who is the marxists evidence

Answer 9

Fran Ansley (1972)

Question 10

What did Fran Ansley (1972) argue

Answer 10

wives are ‘takers of shit’. That men relieve stress from their exploitation in the capitalist system by abusing women.

Instead of directing their anger to the ruling-class, they misdirect it to women.

prevents working-class men and women to unite and overthrow capitalism.

Question 11

who is the marxist analysis ?

Answer 11

‘shadow pandemic’ in rising domestic violence.

national domestic abuse helpline increased by 65% explained by :

working from home

rise in women’s unpaid labour

men’s declining mental health.

Question 12

what is the black feminist’s point

Answer 12

domestic abuse through intersectionality by the interweaving of class, racial and gender domination.

violence through attempts to assert or reproduce their power

Question 13

who is the evidence for black feminists

Answer 13

Hillary Potter (2006)

Question 14

what did Hillary Potter (2006) argue

Answer 14

black working-class women experience domestic abuse differently because of their ‘triple opression’

Question 15

how can potter’s argument be explained further

Answer 15

ONS statistics from 2023 supporting this, found black women in the UK were 9% more likely to experience domestic abuse

Question 16

how does potter analyse her argument

Answer 16

this means that it explains violence within homosexual relationships, child abuse and elder abuse.

For example, child abuse can be explained through the reproduction of age-based power through violence or the threat of it.