Feminism and Gender

Question 1

Marxist Feminists

Answer 1

• Fran Ansley
• Bruegel
• Diane Feeley
• Margret Benston

Question 2

Fran Ansley

Answer 2

• Women soothe the stresses of proletariat men
• Women are “takers of shit”
• Husbands exploited at work and take it out on wives

Question 3

Bruegel

Answer 3

• Women are the ‘reserve army of labour’
• Women join the workforce as needed and then go back to being housewives

Question 4

Radical Feminists

Answer 4

• Johnson
• Ti-Grace Atkinson
• Rich (1980)

Question 5

Johnson

Answer 5

• ‘Patriarchal terrorism’
• Men are prepared to defend their power at all costs and will use violence
• Control of wives by husbands

Question 6

Ti-grace Atkinson

Answer 6

• Political lesbianism
• Women can create a society without men

Question 7

Rich (1980)

Answer 7

• Women are not inherently heterosexual
• Encouraged to pursue heterosexual relationships as a patriarchal norm

Question 8

Sylvia Walby

Answer 8

• Public patriarchy
• Women experience patriarchal oppression in 6 structures
• Paid employment - Less likely to achieve certain roles
• Household - Expected to be main physical and emotional caregiver
• The State - Weakness of laws protecting women
• The Media - women are sexualised
• Sexuality - Expected not to discuss sex as men do
• Violence - More likely to experience violent behaviour

Question 9

Public Patriarchy

Answer 9

• Women experience patriarchal oppression in 6 structures
• Paid employment
• Household
• The state
• The media
• Sexuality
• Violence