Feminism: Family Flashcards
Key term: patriarchal
Rule of the farther - patriarchy is established and reinforced in family relationships
Key term: Domestic labour
Most of the unpaid work in the family in the is done by women even when women are working ass well. Ann Oakley describes this as carrying a “dual burden”
Key term: Emotional labour
Women are more likely to take on the emotional burdens in the family. Duncome and Marsden describe this as working a “triple shift”
Main points of oppression according to feminists:
Domestic labour
Emotional labour
Economic dependency
Family is male dominated
Key term: Economic dependency
Married women are often dependent on their husbands, as women tend to look after children and have part time jobs
Ann Oakley:
Liberal feminist
Focused on the inequality of roles within the family that are based on learned stereotypes, through the processes of manipulation and canalisation
Key term: Canalisation
This is where children are channelled into different gender identities by their parents
Oakley idea
Key term: Manipulation
Parents manipulate their children by encouraging different types of activity
Liberal feminists:
Tend to be generally optimistic about the family
Focus on the inequality of roles within the family
When was the sex discrimination act?
1975
What was the sex discrimination act?
Prevented employers from discriminating against people based on their gender
When was the Equal pay act?
1970
What was the equal pay act?
Meant that men and women had to be paid the same amount for doing the same job
When was the equality act?
2010
What was the equality act?
Combined the main elements of Sex discrimination and Equal Pay Act alongside other anti-discrimination laws
Marxist feminists:
Focus on the oppression of women, rooted in the family and linked to capitalism
Position of women in the family is seen as a major prop to capitalism
Key term: Domestic labour
Most of the unpaid work in the family in the is done by women even when women are working ass well. Ann Oakley describes this as carrying a “dual burden”
Key term: Emotional labour
Women are more likely to take on the emotional burdens in the family. Duncome and Marsden describe this as working a “triple shift”
Main points of oppression according to feminists:
Domestic labour
Emotional labour
Economic dependency
Family is male dominated
Key term: Economic dependency
Married women are often dependent on their husbands, as women tend to look after children and have part time jobs
Ann Oakley:
Liberal feminist
Focused on the inequality of roles within the family that are based on learned stereotypes, through the processes of manipulation and canalisation
Key term: Canalisation
This is where children are channelled into different gender identities by their parents
Oakley idea
Key term: Manipulation
Parents manipulate their children by encouraging different types of activity
Liberal feminists:
Tend to be generally optimistic about the family
Focus on the inequality of roles within the family
When was the sex discrimination act?
1975
What was the sex discrimination act?
Prevented employers from discriminating against people based on their gender
When was the Equal pay act?
1970
What was the equal pay act?
Meant that men and women had to be paid the same amount for doing the same job
When was the equality act?
2010
What was the equality act?
Combined the main elements of Sex discrimination and Equal Pay Act alongside other anti-discrimination laws
Marxist feminists:
Focus on the oppression of women, rooted in the family and linked to capitalism
Position of women in the family is seen as a major prop to capitalism
Fran Ansley:
Marxist feminist
Taken the idea of Zaretsky and the failure of the home to act as an effective haven from the everyday oppression of capitalism - sees the emotional support that women gives her husband after a hard day at work in the capitalist system as a safety valve
Barrett and McIntosh:
Marxist feminists
Argue that their is a strong ideology that supports the nuclear family
Suggest that ideology of familism destroys life outside the family by presenting all alternatives as shallow and lacking meaning
Radical feminism:
See the domination of women as the most fundamental and universal form of domination
Family as an institution is important in maintaining male power.
Jessie Bernard:
Radical feminist
Argues “being a housewife makes women sick” because they get fewer benefits out of it than men.
Millet:
Radical feminist
Argues relationships of domination by men and women don’t just happen at a societal level but are occurring within the home.
Dunscombe and Marsden:
Radical feminists
Argue that although women are now taking on more paid employment as a result of legal and social changes they have ended up doing what they call a ‘triple shift’
What is the triple shift?
This is where women are now working, but still carry the burden of doing most of the housework and emotional work of childcare
