Feminism and the Family

Question 1

Most feminists believe the family traditionally ______ and oppresses women.
Alongside marxist and functionalists, feminists also believe that the family helps to maintain the existing _____ ______. This social order is referred to, by feminists, as the ________.
The theory arguing that the family supports and reproduces inequality between men and women.
Women are _______ to be ______ on men.

Answer 1

• Exploits
• Social Order
• Patriarchy
• Socialised
• Dependent

Question 2

Strands of feminism:
What does each theorist believe to be the root cause of the patriarchy?
- Marxist
- Radical
- Liberal

Answer 2

• The capitalist system.
• The power dominance of men.
• The cultural attitudes and the laws that allow discrimination.

Question 3

Marxist feminism sees the exploitation of women as essential to the success of ______. The family produces and cares for the next _______ of _______, at no cost. The men are paid for work outside the home but the women don’t get paid for work ____ the home as that would damage capitalist ______.

Answer 3

• Capitalism
• Generation
• Workers
• Inside
• Profits

Question 4

Radical feminists see the exploitation of women stemming from the fact that men will always ______ women.
In the family the women do most of the ____ and the men get most of the ____.

Answer 4

• Oppress
• Work
• Benefit

Question 5

Liberal feminists emphasize _____ norms and _____ reinforced within the family. They believe the family is only sexist because it supports ________ culture, which is ____, but they believe _____ is possible and so try to put pressure on institutions like the legal system/_______ to change policies that discriminate against women.

Answer 5

• Cultural
• Values
• Mainstream
• Sexist
• Change
• Government

Question 6

Criticism of feminism:
All strands portray women as too _____, playing down the ability of the ______ woman to make changes and improve their situation.
It also doesn’t acknowledge that the power may be ______ within some families alongside not recognising the dynamic in _______ or ____ parent families or families that have different _______ and therefore different life ________.

Answer 6

• Passive
• Individual
• Shared
• Homosexual
• Lone
• Ethnicities
• Experiences