Feminism

Question 1

What’s liberal feminists?

Answer 1

They aim to achieve rights for women through legal and cultural changes. Success include the equal pay act and shared parental leave. Cultural change is also needed to challenge stereotypes. There has been a March of progress.

Question 2

What is an example of the march of progress?

Answer 2

Sharpe found that girls in the 1990s aspired to careers before family.

Question 3

What’s a criticism of Liberal feminists

Answer 3

Radicals would argue that they are too naïve, policy change will never be enough.

Question 4

What do radical feminists believe?

Answer 4

The patriarchy is universal so men are the enemy. Solutions need to be radical eg separatism

Question 5

Who is an example of a radical feminist?

Answer 5

Dobash and Dobash when they found that domestic violence was triggered when victims challenge male authority.

Question 6

How would radical feminists be critised by positivist?

Answer 6

They would argue that radical feminist research is value laden and therefore useless

Question 7

What is another type of feminist?

Answer 7

Marxist feminists

Question 8

What do Marxist feminists argue?

Answer 8

The root of women’s oppression is capitalism eg the housewife provides free domestic labour and maintains the workers.

Question 9

Who are two marxist feminists?

Answer 9

Ansley and Barrett

Question 10

What did Ansley argue?

Answer 10

Women are ‘takers of shit’ absorbing men’s frustrations

Question 11

What does Barrett argue?

Answer 11

There is an ideology of families where women are persuaded that family life and the domestic division of Labour it involves is the only way to fulfillment, the only solution being to over throw capitalism

Question 12

What does Butler argue?

Answer 12

Feminism has become dominated by middle class white women who are not representative of many women around the world.

Question 13

Who argues that men are the reason behind all women’s problems?

Answer 13

Firestone.

Question 14

Who is an example of a Liberal feminist and what does she say?

Answer 14

Oakley. She says that there has been successive progress towards gender equality. This is through changes in socialisation, culture and political action which has introduced anti discriminatory laws.

Question 15

What is dual systems feminism?

Answer 15

This combines Marxist and radical feminism. They see the patriarchy and capitalism as combined forming patriarchal capitalism.They say that to understand women’s subordination we must look at women’s division of Labour and in paid work. The two systems reinforce each other.

Question 16

What does Walby argue?

Answer 16

She agrees with dual system of feminism on that capitalism and patriarchy are inner related yet she argues that the interests of the 2 are not the same as they collide over the exploitation of female labour. Capitalism wants women’s cheap labour for its work force whilst patriarchy wants to keep women at home in the domestic sphere. Capitalism is more powerful as it wins in the long run. Patriarchal society allows women to take up low unskilled work to ensure women are subordinate to men

Question 16

What does Abbot argue are the 4 ways that sociology has become male streamed?

Answer 16

1. More research has been conducted about men then women and it is generalised to all people no matter their gender. 2. Issues of concern to women have been reflected work often refers to payed work rather than exploring unpaid domestic work 3. Women are presented in exist ways 4. Gender is just added as an existing variable and not of high importance

Question 17

What do feminists argue about mainstream sociology?

Answer 17

They say that it is malestream and has a masculine bias. This is because previous research has been focused on positivist methodology

Question 18

What do Marxist and radical feminists use as research Methods?

Answer 18

Positivist

Question 19

What do liberal and post structural feminists prefer to use as research methods?

Answer 19

Interpretivist