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

2. Answer
Radical and Marxist feminists

3. Question
What is the key feature of Marxist feminism?

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

5. Question
What does Benston say capitalism turns women into?

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

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

8. Answer
authoritarian ideology designed to teach passivity not rebellion

9. Question
What is the key feature of radical feminism?

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

11. Question
What does Delphy and Leonard (1992) argue?

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

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

14. Answer Domestic labour Supporting their husbands Economic dependency
Male domination

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

16. 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

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

18. Answer primary socialisation of children
stabilisation of adult personalities

19. Question
What is Parsons’ sexual division of labour?

20. Answer
Men have instrumental role
Women have expressive role