the economy

Question 1

key agreements principles

Answer 1

that the economy upholds gender inequality
agreement between socialist feminists and radical feminists of the importance of womens place in the economy and unpaid domestic labour to womens oppression

Question 2

key tensions disagreement

Answer 2

over the importance of abolishing capitalism to achieving gender equality including whether domestic work should be communal
disagreement over wether the economy is patriarchal including
- liberal feminists disagreement with radical feminism in relation to whether the existing economy needs to be fundamentally transformed or whether women need to be given equal status to men within it
- post moden feminism intersectional critique of patriarchy generalising womens experience