Feminism

Question 1

Oakley (Liberal)

Answer 1

Argues that gender role socialisation is where gender inequality takes root from, by teaching children expected norms for their sex.

Question 2

Johnson (Radical)

Answer 2

Termed “patriarchal terrorism” used to explain domestic violence and aggression by men as a form of controlling women.

Question 3

Ansley (Marxist)

Answer 3

Says that women are the “takers of shit” as husbands return home from the workplace and take their anger and frustration out on their wives. Therefore they maintain capitalism.

Question 4

Brewer (Black)

Answer 4

States that race, class and gender are ‘simultaneous forces’. Black women suffer the most as each inequality reinforces the other inequalities restricting the life chances of balck women.