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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.

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  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

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