Feminism

Question 1

Marxist feminism

Answer 1

• Women are exploited by capitalism and men.

Question 2

Fran Ansley (marxist feminist)

Answer 2

• Women absorb men’s frustrations, unequal division of labour in the family as benefitting the ruling class and capitalism
• “Wives are takers of shit”

Question 3

Delphy and Leonard (marxist feminists)

Answer 3

• Women are exploited through domestic labour.
• Men control the workforce and women are a part of the workforce.

Question 4

Liberal feminism

Answer 4

• Tackle inequalities by utilising existing systems. Legal changes have impacted on many aspects of womens lives:
• education
• family
• work

Question 5

Young and Wilmott (liberal feminism)

Answer 5

• Talked about the symmetrical family.
• Families are becoming more equal.

Question 6

Radical feminism

Answer 6

• Patriarchy is present in all aspects of society.
• Recent changes are superficial and token gestures.

Question 7

Millet (radical feminist)

Answer 7

• Women are controlled physically, pyschologically and ideologically by men.

Question 8

Ann Oakley (radical feminist)

Answer 8

• Interviewed 40 women, 20 m/c and 20 w/c.
• Women are not becoming more equal.
• Found that women do most of the housework and childcare.
  15% of husbands had a high level of participation in housework.
  25% of husbands had a high participation in childcare.

Question 9

Difference feminism

Answer 9

• Do not see women as a single homogenous group.
• Criticised preceding feminist theory for claiming a ‘false universality’ (white, western, m/c)