Cards (3)

  • Feminists
    Think that conventional families maintain the status quo, which is a patriarchal (male-dominated) society
  • Liberal feminists

    • Focus on legal equality between the sexes
    • Recognise there is still a long way to go, especially in terms of domestic labour, and the way boys and girls are socialised differently (canalised into their gender roles)
    • Argue that families can be equal and unoppressive, even though they still serve the patriarchy
  • Legal battles won by feminists

    • Outlawing marital rape in 1991
    • Reforms to divorce laws
    • Reforms to abortion laws