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FEMINISM (Liberal Feminism (Causes of inequality in relationships…

- - - - Evaluation of the Liberal Feminist Perspective on the Family
        
        Sommerville recognizes that significant progress has been made in both public
        and private life for women
        
        It is more appealing to a wider range of women than radical ideas
- - - - Radical feminists argue that all relationships between men and women are based
        on patriarchy
        
        Some Radical Feminists go further arguing
        that women suffer from the ‘triple shift’ where they have to do paid work, domestic work and emotion work.
        
        Key thinker –Kate Millet was one of the leading American
        Second Wave Feminists in the 1960s and 70s
        
        Solutions to gender inequality
        
        In short, Radical Feminists advocate for the abolition of the traditional,
        patriarchal nuclear family and the establishment of alternative
        family structures and sexual relations.
- - - - In other words, all of the chores associated with the traditional, expressive role,
        such as domestic labor, child care and emotion work are necessary to ‘keep the
        family going’ and so women’s unpaid work ultimately ends up benefiting the
        Capitalist class
    - - The traditional nuclear family not only physically reproduces cheap labour for the
        the ruling class,it also teaches the ideas that the Capitalist class require for their
        future workers to be passive.