feminist view on families and households

• overall feminist view

  they argue that families preserve, support and embed patriarchy
• marxist feminist view

  they argue that the main cause of women's oppression is capitalism
• what functions would marxist feminists say women's oppression gives?

  women reproduce the labour work force

  women absorb anger

  women are a 'reserve army of cheap labour
• name of a marxist feminist

  Fran Ansley
• what did Ansley say about the family

  she argued that women absorb the anger that would otherwise be directed at capitalism

  women are 'takers of shit' in the nuclear family
• solutions to women's oppression - marxist feminists

  need to tackle capitalism to be able to tackle patriarchy

  campaigning for better pay and conditions where women work and paying women for housework and childcare
• evaluation of marxist feminism

  women's oppression was evident before capitalism and it can be argued that oppression was worse before
• radical feminist view of the family

  the nuclear family is where oppression starts

  dual burden and triple shift
• who argues that there is a dark side of the family

  radical feminists - domestic abuse
• solutions of women's oppression by radical feminists

  separatism and the abortion of the traditional nuclear family
• evaluation of radical feminism

  ignores the progress that women have made which is identified by liberal feminists
• what did sommerville say about the family?

  she found that there was increased choice for women and the rise in the dual earner household has helped create greater equality

  march of progress view
• evaluation of liberal feminists

  difference feminists argue that they have an ethnocentric view and it only reflects the experiences of mainly white middle class women