key ideas

Cards (1)

    • Sex and domestic economics are hand in hand – for women to survive, they have to depend on their sexuality and body in order to please their husbands.
    • Societal pressure – young girls are compelled to conform in society and prepare for motherhood by playing with toys and wearing clothes that are specifically designed for and marketed to them.
    • She attacked how Darwin’s Theory of Evolution was used to justify male domination at home and in society.
    • She argued that women were forced to live a life of domestic servitude, on the grounds this was their true role.