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Feminist view on the family
LIBERAL FEMINISTS
gender role socialisation teaches and internalises differences in gendered behaviour for young boys and girls
OAKLEY
says this is a source of patriarchal discrimination because the ideological consequence of girls being persuaded to accept that their main responsibilities are family bound, preventing an even playing field with men (well-payed jobs and positions of power)
OAKLEY (1981)
Gender inequality in the family is a product of discrimination by individuals, not as a product of the system or structure
SOMERVILLE (2000)
women now have much more choice whether to marry, take on paid work when married, and whether they stay married.
WILKINSON
these economic changes have led to a dramatic cultural shift in womens attitudes-
genderquake
. Women today have different attitudes towards family responsibilities compared with their grandmothers, and value education highly
EVALUATE
it is a cozy view, reflecting the experiences of white, middle-class women.
CORSARO (2011)
is critical of gender role socialisation arguments, there is little research on parent-child interaction in the home, and there is no real evidence around toys socialising etc. No sociological research has found a link between toys symbolically leading to gender roles
MARXIST FEMINISTS
BENSTON (1972)
suggests nuclear family is important to capitalism because it produces and rears the future workforce at little cost to the capitalist state. Domestic labour is unpaid but great value to capitalism
women's unpaid domestic labour, housework and sexual, ensures the male workforce is fit and healthy to work for the ruling class.
ONS (2014)
estimates laundry and ironing in the home was worth an estimated £97.2 billion in 2012.
all labour, paid and domestic, exploited by the ruling class. All men benefit from the influence of patriarchal ideology
ANSLEY (1972)
women are takers of shit
ANSLEY
capitalism has stripped male workers of dignity, power and control at work, they now feel their masculinity is being challenged. She argues this crisis of masculinty and frustration is absorbed by the family- particularly the female partner often as domestic violence and child abuse. Women act as safety valves for capitalism as men get anger out on her, instead of root cause- work.
EVALUATE
ignores day to day experiences of women who enjoy being mothers, wives and so on
family diversity has caused a decline in the nuclear family model, which marxist feminists base a lot of their arguments on
OAKLEY
says gender discrimination is not a product of system or structure, more individuals
radical feminists say patriarchy existed well before capitalism appeared, men have always controlled women
RADICAL FEMINISTS
MILLET (1970) and FIRESTONE (1971)
argue men and women constitute seperate, conflicting sex classes and the interactions of these are responsible for gender inequality
nuclear family teaches children patriarchal ideology, and the functionalist idea that sexual division of labour is natural
FIRESTONE
"love is the pivit of women's oppression today", while
DELPHY AND LEONARD (1992)
argue husbands exploit their wives despite loving them
DELPHY AND LEONARD
argue a woman's role is to flatter her husband and provide emotional support for him- something men rarely do for women
many radical feminists are pessimistic about patriarchal gender relations being transformed while current family set ups exist. They believe the patriarchal. monogamus nuclear family must be abolished or radically altered, and alternative ways of life must be encouraged e.g. female-only communes
EVALUATE
SOMERVILLE AND HAKIM
argue they probably exaggerate the exploitation of women in the family and that women still value their relationships with men
overemphasises nuclear family
significantly dated, doesn't account for economic and social changes, like women's success in education and increase in divorce