Feminist Perspective (Nuclear Family)

Question 1

What does the family allow to work?

Answer 1

The patriarchy

Question 2

According to MARXIST Feminists, what do the ruling-class do?

Answer 2

Exploit labour & domestic work.

Question 3

According to MARXIST Feminists, what does women’s unpaid domestic labour in the home help to do?

Answer 3

Make a productive & healthy male workforce.

Question 4

What do some MARXIST Feminists argue men should have?

Answer 4

A salary that covers the cost of his work, as well as his wife’s work at home which allows him to work effectively.

Question 5

MARXIST FEMINISTS

A_____ (19__) argues that due to the fact that ______ class ____ go to work and are _______ there due to the ________ taken place by the _______, they take it out on their _____ i.e _____ ______.

Answer 5

a) Ansley (1972)
b) working
c) males
d) unhappy
e) exploitation
f) bourgeoisie
g) wives
h) domestic abuse

Question 6

List 3 criticisms of MARXIST Feminists.

Answer 6

Has traditional views of the nuclear family & ignores diverse family types.

Many families are dual-career.

Assumes all families have traditional gender roles.

Question 7

What do RADICAL Feminists Delphy & Leonard (1992) argue a woman’s role in a marriage is?

Answer 7

To ‘flatter’ her husband & provide emotional support for him, whilst men rarely perform this function.

Question 8

RADICAL FEMINISTS

Some radical feminists believe the ______ family must be ______ through using _______ technologies (i.e ___) to exclude _____ from families.

Answer 8

a) nuclear
b) abolished
c) reproductive
d) IVF
e) men

Question 9

LIBERAL FEMINISTS

The Nuclear Family contributes to _______ _____ socialisation eg girls are born into families where ___ are at the ____ and women partake in ______ ______.

Answer 9

a) gender role
b) men
c) head
d) domestic labour

Question 10

What are service sector jobs?

What did it open?

What did it increase?

Answer 10

Jobs which provide a service i.e nursing.

It opened lots of jobs for women in which they can see themselves working.

It increases the economic power of women.

Question 11

What do liberal feminists recognise and praise?

Answer 11

Positive changes

Question 12

Difference feminists criticise liberal feminists by claiming women experience life differently. Give an example regarding religious/cultural belief systems.

Answer 12

Patriarchal control of family life by men may be considered natural.

Question 13

Difference feminists criticise liberal feminists by claiming women experience life differently. Give an example regarding class differences.

Answer 13

Middle-class women are less likely to be exploited by men/capitalism as they have the economic & cultural capital to challenge the patriarchy.

Question 14

Radical feminists claim girls are ________ to believe _________ & _______ are _______ and therefore ______ the ______ of _______ life.

Answer 14

a) socialised
b) oppression & inequality
c) normal
d) accept
e) inequality
f) family

Question 15

How do marxist feminists believe capitalism benefits from women?

Answer 15

Unpaid female work by caring for the next generation of workers.

Question 16

Criticisms - while some families may be unequal and male-dominated, what is to be noted?

Answer 16

Some families exist that are much more equal.

Question 17

Criticisms - POSTMODERNISTS feminists state women don’t have to ______ ________ or make a _____ between ______ life & ______. Instead, they can take _______, resist _______ and _____ their own _______.

Answer 17

a) accept patriarchy
b) choice
c) family life
d) equality
e) initiative
f) oppression
g) assert
h) power