Evaluating feminist views

• Like Marxists


  Some suggest feminists paint too gloomy a picture
• Some families are much more equal and not all women and girls are oppressed by their husbands and fathers
• Radical feminists


  Criticised for seeing women as passive victims of patriarchy
• Postmodern feminists


  Argue that women can make choices and assert their power
• Some feminist theories are seen as outdated, describing a society of traditional nuclear families with working husbands and stay-at-home wives
• Contemporary families are more diverse