Question What are the two most prominent feminist perspectives of the family?

Answer Radical and Marxist feminists

Question What is the key feature of Marxist feminism?

Answer Marxist feminists emphasise how capitalism uses the family to oppresses women

Question What does Benston say capitalism turns women into?

Answer an unpaid workforce- who are compliant and willing to do as they’re told because women have been socialised to act this way

Question Diana Feeley (1972) argues the family is full of (what?)

Answer authoritarian ideology designed to teach passivity not rebellion

Question What is the key feature of radical feminism?

Answer radical feminists focus squarely on patriarchy as the instrument of oppression (emasculation) within the home

Question What does Delphy and Leonard (1992) argue?

Answer it is men rather than capitalism who benefit the most from exploiting women and the family

Question What are the four points Delphy and Leonard identified within the family which oppress women?

Answer Domestic labour Supporting their husbands Economic dependency Male domination

Question According to Delphy and Leonard how are women ‘forced’ to support their husbands?

Answer provide trouble free sex support men in their leisure and work activities provide emotional support women undertake the triple shift cheap labour at home which often goes unrewarded

Question What does Parsons’ identify as being the two main functions of the family

Answer primary socialisation of children stabilisation of adult personalities

Question What is Parsons’ sexual division of labour?

Answer Men have instrumental role Women have expressive role