Feminist Views Of The Family

Question 1

General feminist view of the family is

Answer 1

Feminists are critical of the family as social institutions.They believe that the family is a tool of female oppression and in particular the nuclear family serves the needs of men not women.This is through issues such as unequal division of domestic labour and domestic violence

They believe that gender inequality is a social construct and not a natural phenomena

Question 2

Triple shift

Answer 2

Three roles that women are expected to perform for the family

1) emotional support
2) domestic labour
3) paid work

Question 3

Dual burden

Answer 3

Refers to the traditional roles that women are expected role play in the family

1) emotional support
2) domestic labour

Question 4

Patriarchy

Answer 4

Refers to the way that men dominate women in most areas of society

Question 5

Malesteam sociology

Answer 5

The way that sociologists will apply research data collected about men to the lives of women despite their different experiences

Question 6

Liberal feminism

Answer 6

+Families are slowly becoming more equal through changes in the law and social attitudes

-overstates the amount of progress made

Question 7

Radical feminism

Answer 7

Radical feminists believe that the men are the enemy and marriage snd family are key institutions which allow patriarchy to exist
They argue that the family needs to be abolished for patriarchy to be destroyed

Question 8

Marxist feminism

Answer 8

Marxist feminists see the family as a tool of capitalism and that capitalism not men who oppress women

Question 9

Intersectional feminism

Answer 9

States that other feminists beliefs focus on the experience of women in nuclear family how ever not all families are nuclear