feminism Flashcards
What are feminist views of the family?
Feminism is a left-wing structuralist conflict theory
Sue sharpe - views of the family
Compared girls views between 1970s and 1990s
Found in 1970s girls wanted to get marry and have children
1990s - saw a shift in attitudes as teenage girls still wanted to get married and have children, but much later in life after prioritising education and career goals
Girls Guide 2012
Girls are more likely to define success as being confident and independent (56%) rather than being married (21%)
Sommerville
Recognises that significant progress has been made in both public and private life for women
Argues that in order to achieve true equality within relationships we need increased flexibility in paid employment
Oakley - family
Housework is seen as a predominately female’s role. It is unpaid and makes females dependent on men.
What is meant by women being a reserve army of labour?
if women’s primary role is domestic, and they are restricted from working, this also means they are in reserve, to be taken on temporarily as necessary by the Bourgeois, making production more flexible
Women are more likely to be in low paid jobs with less job security than men
Fran Ansley
- states that women are ‘takers of shit’
- argues women absorb the anger that would otherwise be directed at capitalism.
- Ansley argues women’s male partners are inevitably frustrated by the exploitation they experience at work and women are the victims of this, including domestic violence
Red
The way in which women’s labour is used and abused—the concentration of women in low-paid or unpaid caring and domestic roles, for example, is not only one of the things that sustains patriarchy, it also sustains capitalism
Benston
women are unpaid workforce. She believed that the amount of unpaid labour done by women (in house work, taking care of children etc.) is very profitable to others. Benston said that if women were paid at minimum wage, it would involve a large redistribution of wealth. The man of the household would usually be the one that earned the income, but the women would do just as much work for no charge inside of the house from chores and child care. The woman as a housewife would tend to her husband’s needs and would keep him in good working order by feeding him, cleaning his clothes, doing the chores so he doesn’t have to, which allows him to do his job.
Ferri and Smith
Women have acquired the ‘dual burden’ of paid work and unpaid housework and the family remains patriarchal – men benefit from women’s paid earnings and their domestic labour
Denscombe and Marsden
Women suffer from the ‘triple shift’ where they not only have to do paid work and domestic work, but also ‘emotion work’ where they are expected to take on the emotional burden of caring for children.
Dobash and Dobash
Domestic violence is evidence of patriarchy. When men feel authority is challenged they will use domestic abuse to regain authority.
Greer
Argues that the family continues to disadvantage women. She focuses on looking at the role of women as wives, mothers and daughters. Marriage is similar to a prison for women.
Dworkin
All intercourse, while not literally rape, violates the integrity of a woman’s body, that women who want it are “experiencing pleasure in their own inferiority.”
Feminism - DV
stat
According to the British Crime Survey domestic violence accounts for a sixth of all violent crime and nearly 1 in 4 women will experience DV at some point in their lifetime and women are much more likely to experience this than men
