gender roles, domestic labour and power relationships- paper 2 Flashcards
what is domestic abuse
Physical, psychological, sexual or financial violence thats takes place within a intimate or family relationship. Patters of coercive controlling behaviour.
Sexual abuse -
Neglect -
Physical abuse -
Emotional abuse-
Sexual abuse - Sexual activity that takes place between close family members, particularly between adults and children
Neglect - person’s physical needs for food, cleanliness or warmth are ignored
Physical abuse - domestic violence and refers to actual physical harm, which one family member may
inflict on another
Emotional abuse- refers to how family members may seek to dominate others through constant
ridicule, shaming, rejection or terrorising
What is the dark figure of crime
crimes that are unknown as they are not reported or recorded therefore not accepting that the law has been broken
Domestic abuse figures
- domestic violance accounts for 15% of violent crime
-1/7 women are raped in marriage
-18% of men and 29% of women report abuse
Mirrless black found
-most victims women
-99% of all incidences against women are committed by men
-nearly 1 in 4 women have been assaulted by a partner at some point in there life 1 in 8 report it
-social groups at at heightened chance of facing domestic violence- children, young people, lower social class, live n rented accommodation, drug users
Dabash and dobas
- investigated women in women refuges in Scotland and used police and court records to research domestic violence
-Dabash and Dabash found the violence incidence could be set off by a husband feeling his authors is threatened
-they argue marriage legitimise violence agins women and domestic violence doesn’t happen randomly.
Difficulties in studying domestic violence
- difficult to obtain information
-official police statistical rely on reports they receive form people and the recording of these incidences by police
-with intwerves or questioners people may refuse to participate, misinterpretations, lie, overexagerat, forget
-the researcher may misinterpret the responce
-difficulties in defining domestic violence
-male researcher may receive a different responce to a female
why they stay with an abusive partner
- the victim still loves there abuser think they can change them
-they blame themselves for the violence
-feel they will not be taken seriously
-afraid of repercussions
-victims unwilling to report to the police
-Stephanie Yearnshire 1997 found that on average a woman suffer 35 assaults before making a report. Most likely to go unreported
What Radical feminists think Kate Millet (1970) Shamith firestone (1970 Kathryn Coleman (2007))
-all society founded on patriarct
-Division between men and women men are the enemy’s they oppress and exploit
-Family and marriage instill patriarch men dominate women through DV and threat
-DV helps men keep power and is the main oppressor
-social explanation links patterns of domestic violence to dominate social norms about marriage
-Male dominate insitutiitions explains the reluctance of police and court deal effectible with cases of DV
Cristian Faith Robernson Elliot (1996)
-Men does not benefit from violence agains women
-not all men are aggressive, men oppose DV
-women can also abuse children and abuse there partners
-18% of men have faced DV since they were 16
-Does not explain why women are more likely to be victims there are things that put women at higher risk of DV (also apply to men)
The materialistic explanation Wilinson and Pickett (2010)
-focus on economic and material factors like inequality in income and housing can put people at risk
-fewer resources, low income, overcrowding, money worries, times, no social circle or support leads to high level of stress created conflict as tempers are more frayed
-Does not explain why women are at higher risk
-Says that feminists like Ainsly who say women are the takers of shit in a capitalism society doesn’t explain why all men do not do it and why some women to
how work in the-
Pre-industrial
During the industrial revolution
House work is relatively modern. not any disinguashed form more generic ecominic tasks. Like farm work, tending to animals, baking, various activities of cottage industry
Men became increasingly identified with the public world of production and wage labour. Women confined to private sphere of consumption and the home
parson
argues that the division of labour is based on biological difference
women naturally suite to the nurturing role
division of labour is beneficial to both men and women
men are nautaully suited to being the providers
Wilmot and young
men taking on more domestic tasks women are becoming wage earners
march of progress view the family is improving for all trends towards a symmetric family where there are joint conjcal roles
systematical families are more common amoung younger couples and
majour social change has lead to the rise of the systematical nuclear family like change is women’s positions, geographical mobility, new technology, higher standars of living
there evidence
women now work part time/ full time shared paternity leave stay at home dads. men help with house work and children. couples spend more lesure time together.
Feminists views on the march of progress theory 
the division of labour only benefits men
oakly- rejects match of progress view. mean and women still uneqal with in the family women do most house work. Men see it as ‘helping’ women shows its not symmetrical. responsibility for house work is still women primary role.
exaggerate it symmetry in the family. most husbands are help there wife at least 1 a week this would often simple tasks. This is not conniving to show the family is symmetric.
Sociology of house work- research found evidence of husbands helping in the home but no evidence of symmetry. only 15% of men had high levels of participation in house work and 25% in child care. Huspends help but do the more pleasurable jobs. Wich meant mother missed out on the nice bits