Feminism: Family

Question 1

Key term: patriarchal

Answer 1

Rule of the farther - patriarchy is established and reinforced in family relationships

Question 2

Key term: Domestic labour

Answer 2

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”

Question 3

Key term: Emotional labour

Answer 3

Women are more likely to take on the emotional burdens in the family. Duncome and Marsden describe this as working a “triple shift”

Question 4

Main points of oppression according to feminists:

Answer 4

Domestic labour

Emotional labour

Economic dependency

Family is male dominated

Question 5

Key term: Economic dependency

Answer 5

Married women are often dependent on their husbands, as women tend to look after children and have part time jobs

Question 6

Ann Oakley:

Answer 6

Liberal feminist

Focused on the inequality of roles within the family that are based on learned stereotypes, through the processes of manipulation and canalisation

Question 7

Key term: Canalisation

Answer 7

This is where children are channelled into different gender identities by their parents

Oakley idea

Question 8

Key term: Manipulation

Answer 8

Parents manipulate their children by encouraging different types of activity

Question 9

Liberal feminists:

Answer 9

Tend to be generally optimistic about the family

Focus on the inequality of roles within the family

Question 10

When was the sex discrimination act?

Answer 10

1975

Question 11

What was the sex discrimination act?

Answer 11

Prevented employers from discriminating against people based on their gender

Question 12

When was the Equal pay act?

Answer 12

1970

Question 13

What was the equal pay act?

Answer 13

Meant that men and women had to be paid the same amount for doing the same job

Question 14

When was the equality act?

Answer 14

2010

Question 15

What was the equality act?

Answer 15

Combined the main elements of Sex discrimination and Equal Pay Act alongside other anti-discrimination laws

Question 16

Marxist feminists:

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Key term: Domestic labour

Answer 17

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”

Question 18

Key term: Emotional labour

Answer 18

Women are more likely to take on the emotional burdens in the family. Duncome and Marsden describe this as working a “triple shift”

Question 19

Main points of oppression according to feminists:

Answer 19

Domestic labour

Emotional labour

Economic dependency

Family is male dominated

Question 20

Key term: Economic dependency

Answer 20

Married women are often dependent on their husbands, as women tend to look after children and have part time jobs

Question 21

Ann Oakley:

Answer 21

Liberal feminist

Focused on the inequality of roles within the family that are based on learned stereotypes, through the processes of manipulation and canalisation

Question 22

Key term: Canalisation

Answer 22

This is where children are channelled into different gender identities by their parents

Oakley idea

Question 23

Key term: Manipulation

Answer 23

Parents manipulate their children by encouraging different types of activity

Question 24

Liberal feminists:

Answer 24

Tend to be generally optimistic about the family

Focus on the inequality of roles within the family

Question 25

When was the sex discrimination act?

Answer 25

1975

Question 26

What was the sex discrimination act?

Answer 26

Prevented employers from discriminating against people based on their gender

Question 27

When was the Equal pay act?

Answer 27

1970

Question 28

What was the equal pay act?

Answer 28

Meant that men and women had to be paid the same amount for doing the same job

Question 29

When was the equality act?

Answer 29

2010

Question 30

What was the equality act?

Answer 30

Combined the main elements of Sex discrimination and Equal Pay Act alongside other anti-discrimination laws

Question 31

Marxist feminists:

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Fran Ansley:

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Barrett and McIntosh:

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Radical feminism:

Answer 34

See the domination of women as the most fundamental and universal form of domination

Family as an institution is important in maintaining male power.

Question 35

Jessie Bernard:

Answer 35

Radical feminist

Argues “being a housewife makes women sick” because they get fewer benefits out of it than men.

Question 36

Millet:

Answer 36

Radical feminist

Argues relationships of domination by men and women don’t just happen at a societal level but are occurring within the home.

Question 37

Dunscombe and Marsden:

Answer 37

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’

Question 38

What is the triple shift?

Answer 38

This is where women are now working, but still carry the burden of doing most of the housework and emotional work of childcare