Feminist Theories of the Family

Question 1

What two processes do liberal feminists believe lead to unequal gender roles?

Answer 1

• manipulation

- canalisation

Question 2

What do liberal feminists believe?

Answer 2

The family reproduces unequal gender roes via socialisation processes

Question 3

Who mentions canalisation and manipulation?

Answer 3

Oakley

Question 4

What is canalisation?

Answer 4

Where parents force gender appropriate items onto their child. Toys, sports ect

Question 5

What is manipulation?

Answer 5

Where parents encourage or discourage certain behaviours based on their child’s gender

Question 6

Which liberal feminists believe society has changed to the advantage of women?

Answer 6

Wilkinson

Question 7

What is genderquake?

Answer 7

There has been a shift in power from men to women. Men’s domination of the workforce and ownership has declined

Question 8

What is the feminisation of the workforce?

Answer 8

Following the heavily industrialised 1980s, the economy has drastically changed towards the leisure and hospitality sector which are very female friendly

Question 9

What legal and political changes have happened that have benefited women?

Answer 9

The right to vote, employment rights

Question 10

Evaluation of liberal feminism…

Answer 10

• parents are less likely to treat boys and girls differently following mental health studies, boys more encouraged to show emotion
• more and more families do not have two gender role models, same sex families ect

Question 11

What do Marxist feminists believe?

Answer 11

Regard women as being doubly oppressed in society by both capatalism and men

Question 12

Explain Ansleys safety valve for capatalism function…

Answer 12

Women are likely to be subject to their husbands frustrations experiences in a capatalist society. This can take the forms f domestic abuse. This relieves the stress from the man so he can return to work having relieved himself

Question 13

Explain Benstons reproducing and maintains a capatalist workforce function…

Answer 13

Once married, women are pressured into having children. By doing this, they repopulate society so they grow up and become workers. Also, they maintain the current workforce by caring for their husbands; cleaning, sexually ect

Question 14

Explain Benstons reserve army of labour function…

Answer 14

Women are invited to participate in employment when needed.

Question 15

Evaluation of Marxist feminism…

Answer 15

• wrongly claim women are too passive, nowadays women are in full time employment
• don’t acknowledge power in the family may be shared in a family

Question 16

What do radical feminists believe?

Answer 16

Men dominate society and the exploit women. Once married, women are trapped in subordinated domestic roles in which their independence becomes secondary to the needs of their husbands

Question 17

What does Germaine Greer believe?

Answer 17

Women that choose to sleep with men are “sleeping with the enemy” and are betraying women.
They see transgender women as being a threat to the biological women

Question 18

What two solutions do radical feminists propose?

Answer 18

• separatism

- political lesbianism

Question 19

What is separatism?

Answer 19

Women actively avoid engaging with men. This includes; female safe spaces, and all female working environment

Question 20

What is political lesbianism?

Answer 20

Where women pursue lesbian relationships to challenge heterosexual relationships

Question 21

Evaluation of radical feminism…

Answer 21

• not all men oppress women, women have careers to pursue which they wouldn’t have in a world racial feminists claim to be
• there is a big LGBTQ movement challenging the view transgender women aren’t real women

Question 22

What do difference feminists believe?

Answer 22

Argue all other feminists ignore the unique ways in which women are oppressed.

Question 23

What different reason can women be oppressed for according to difference feminism?

Answer 23

Class, age, race, religion and sexuality

Question 24

Evaluation of difference feminism…

Answer 24

-neglect the common experiences of most women in the family