Gender and Society AO2 and Essay Plans

Question 1

motherhood is liberating

Answer 1

• what women were created for-fulfilling their purpose
• draws on natural abilities for women to be caring and nurturing.
• a woman is able to provide the best start to the education for the next generation
• Mary Daly suggest that motherhood is extremely liberating for women

Question 2

motherhood is restricting

Answer 2

• a woman must give up her own life, interests, personality, to take care of her own children.
• slows down progress with careers.
• some argue the Desire is purely the result of social conditioning
• when Children leave home a woman is left without a proper purpose. (Beauvoir)

Question 3

Christianity should resist current secular views on gender

Answer 3

• Christians have a responsibility to defend traditional biblical ideas;two distinct genders with different purposes.
• studies that children achieve better at school if they come from stable families with two parents, have both male/female role models in their lives.
• A religion that fit’s comfortably with secular thinking offers nothing distinctive and it is not worth following.

Question 4

Christianity should adopt current secular views on Gender

Answer 4

• Christianity perpetuates injustice by forcing women into a position of subservience.
• If it is to appeal to future generations it has to adapt to modern world.
• Resists same sex marriage- harmful.

Question 5

The idea of a family is culturally determined

Answer 5

• industrialised society= people tend to live in smaller family units due to different kinds of work, rural=larger family.
• most sociologists see human behaviour as being shaped entirely by society we belong— UK normal for young adults to find a partner, set up a home together – other countries, 15 would be a typical age for marriage.

Question 6

the idea of a family is not entirely culturally determined

Answer 6

• created and shaped by God

- Gift,sacrament, way of life