Feminists

Question 1

What is meant by the key word patriarchy?

Answer 1

Men dominate women in most areas of society

Question 2

What is meant by the key word triple shift?

Answer 2

Three roles women are expected to perform:
1. Emotional support
2.domestic labour
3. Paid work

Question 3

What is meant by the key word duel burden?

Answer 3

Two traditional ways women are expected to play in society
1. Emotional support
2. Domestic labour

Question 4

What are the four social policies?

Answer 4

1. 1932- women given the vote
   2.1970s- contraceptive pill available on the NHS
2. 1972- divorce reform Act- more accessible
3. 1990s- rape within marriage illegal

Question 5

What do radical feminists believe?

Answer 5

Absolute division in society and men are the enemy as they benefit from unpaid domestic labour and sexual services

Question 6

What do radical feminists say is the only way to achieve separatism

Answer 6

Women live separate to men.

Question 7

What do liberal feminists believe?

Answer 7

That in society there should be equality between genders with parents socialising children wether it’s a son or daughter similarly e.g chorse not gender specific

Question 8

What are liberal feminists concerned over?

Answer 8

Concerned with campaign against sex discrimination and equal rights
Women oppression slowly overcome due to these changes in law

Question 9

What do difference feminists believe?

Answer 9

That not all women are the same as other feminists only focus on experience of women in the nuclear family as not all are nuclear
Shows they believe that you can’t generalise womens experience

Question 10

What do difference feminists say about the lives of black women in the family?

Answer 10

That family is a possible support against racism

Question 11

What do Marxist feminists believe?

Answer 11

Family is a tool of capitalism that oppress and not men

Question 12

What are the three ways that Marxist feminists say that the family oppresses women and support capitalism

Answer 12

1. Women reproduce workforce and socialise them
2. Absorb anger of men who are frustrated due to to alienation and exploitation
3. Reserve army of labour but are let go when not needed e.g ww1

Question 13

What does Ansley say about women?

Answer 13

They are the takers of shit

Question 14

How does Somerville criticise radical feminists?

Answer 14

Claims to fail to see improvements as their has been to the women family experience.
Have control over fertility and access to divorce

Question 15

What is one criticism of liberal feminists?

Answer 15

That it overstates the amount of progress as the triple shift is still a thing

Question 16

How do Marxist and radical feminists criticise liberal feminists?

Answer 16

Claim it fails to challenge underlying cause of women oppression as a change in law won’t bring equality there needs to be a fundamental societal change

Question 17

What is a criticism of difference feminists?

Answer 17

Women are no longer a reserve labour
Equal rights at work and as likely as men to be a breadwinner

Question 18

What does the liberal feminist Jennifer Somerville state and when?
2 reasons

Answer 18

In 2000,
Family no longer patriarchal institution it was in the 19th century as there are social policies of benefit women
Also argues greater equality as women have choice to work although potentially in not all areas

Question 19

What does the liberal feminist Oakley state?

Answer 19

Gender role socialisation and patriarchy:
Some parents use gender role socialisation to teach children males are dominant

Question 20

What does the radical feminist Greer state and in what year?

Answer 20

2000
Heterosexual families are the number one source if women suffering. Should be all female households

Question 21

What does the radical feminist Kate Millet state and in what year?

Answer 21

Gender role socialisation in the family is the main source of patriarchal ideology.
e.g boys see inequality natural and normal between men and women

Question 22

What does the radical feminist Delphy and Leonard state and in what year?

Answer 22

1992
Rejects functionalist idea that men and women performs roles of equal importance
Husbands exploit women and have little contribution to housework and kids