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Theories of the family (Feminists (Radical Feminists (The family and…
Theories of the family
Feminists
Liberal Feminists
Gender inequality is gradually being overcome through reform and policy change- this changes people's attitudes towards socialisation and challenges stereotypes (similar to March of Progress)
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Radical Feminists
The family and marriage are the key institutions of a patriarchal society - men benefit from women's unpaid domestic labour and sexual services
They also believe the patriarchal system needs to be overturned, the only way this can be achieved is through separatism, meaning women need to organise themselves independently to men
Difference Feminists
Not all women share the same experience of oppression; dependant on ethnicity, class, age etc.
Marxists
Engels
The family exists so men can pass their private property onto their offspring, notably a son
Zaretzky
There is an ideological function of the family called the 'cult of private life'- this is the belief that we can only gain fulfilment from family life, which distracts attention from exploitation
Poulantzas
Nuclear families are brainwashed into thinking capitalism is fair which teaches lower generations how to conform and co-operate with the capitalist system
Functionalists
The Organic Analogy
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The interdependent parts of society include the education system, the government, religion etc
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