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