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Feminism - Coggle Diagram
Feminism
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Practical Solutions:
Women are discriminated against and exploited in the family. There is inequality in housework, roles and power.
Is possible to have a more egalitarian family, e.g through legislation on rape in the family. They are also influential in changing attitudes towards housework and childcare. Argued - more realistic than radical feminists.
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Ansley
Agrees with Parsons that the family environment helps husband and wife maintain their psychological well-being which Parson's calls the stabilisation of the adult personality.
Disagrees with the functionalists that this benefits the family, instead it benefits capitalism. It enables him to escape the boring, stressful, frustration of work preventing him from dealing with the real cause of his frustration - the exploitation of workplace environment.
Lesbian Relationships.
Calhoun claims that battery, rape and child abuse is common in heater relationships
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Economic Arrangements.
Radical feminists - the family as an economic system primarily benefitting men because domestic relationships are left to the wife where husband controls finances and decisions.
Research studies have found women more likely to be passive in a sexual relationship - the wife is more likely to agree with her partner's financial decisions than the other way round.
Post-Feminism
The increase in family diversity, e.g lone parent, gay and reconstituted means that the nuclear family is no longer the dominant family type. Varied domestic arrangements means that feminism may no longer be applicable.
Post-feminists - family life does not always produce inequality and exploitation as people now can chose their living arrangements.
Post-modernists Theory
The increase in family diversity means nuclear family no longer dominant. Domestic arrangements are now so varied feminism may no longer be applicable.
Alternatives to nuclear family, where both partners work, suggest that the marxist view may be wrong as she is no longer a source of cheap labour.
New Right sociologists
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Lone parent families can be dysfunctional for both society and the individual e.g more likely to fail in education and turn to crime.
Feminists see the family as serving the needs of a patriarchal society. Their research has focused mainly on housework arrangements, domestic violence and the power relationship within the family.
Feminism also examines how women's role in the family contributes to the economy. All branches of feminism agree that the family is oppressive and exploitative
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Outside the family, they have also played a role in changing policies regarding gender inequality. e.g. Equal Pay Act 1970
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Radical feminists see the family as an institution that exploits and oppresses women in all aspects emotionally, economically and physically.
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Women can negotiate their domestic role - career opportunities, financially independent
Feminists ignore positive sides of family - e.g some women enjoy running a home and raising children