Question What are the two most prominent feminist perspectives of the family?

Question What are the two most prominent

feminist perspectives of the family?

ResponsesA: Radical and Marxist feministsB: Functionalist and MarxistC: Radical and functionalistD: Functionalist and neo-functionalist

Question What is the key feature of Marxist

feminism?

ResponsesA: Marxist feminist emphasise how patriarchy uses the family to oppress women

B: Marxist feminist emphasise how functionalists use the family to oppress women

C: Marxist feminists emphasise how capitalism uses the family to oppresses women

D: Marxist feminist emphasise how same-sex relationships use the family to oppress women

Question What does Benston say capitalism turns

women into?

ResponsesA: an unpaid workforce of matriarchs who oppress men through their new-found power B: Power hungry neurotics

C: an unpaid workforce who are better equipped to change capitalism with their sexuality

D: an unpaid workforce- who are compliant and willing to do as they’re told because women have been socialised to act this way

Question Diana Feeley (1972) argues the family is

full of (what?)

ResponsesA: authoritarian ideology designed to teach passivity not rebellionB: authoritarian ideology designed to teach rebellion not passivityC: authoritarian ideology designed to teach emancipationD: authoritarian ideology designed to teach matriarchy

Question What is the key feature of radical

feminism?

ResponsesA: radical feminists focus squarely on patriarchy as the instrument of oppression (emasculation) within the homeB: radical feminists focus squarely on matriarchy as the instrument of oppression (emasculation) within the homeC: radical feminists focus squarely on patriarchy as the instrument of freedom (emancipation) within the home

Question What does Delphy and Leonard (1992)

argue?

ResponsesA: it is women rather than capitalism who benefit the most from exploiting women and the familyB: it is capitalism rather than men who benefit the most from exploiting women and the familyC: it is men rather than capitalism who benefit the most from exploiting women and the family

Question What are the four points Delphy and

Leonard identified within the family which oppress women?

ResponsesA: Domestic labour; patriarchal media; economic dependency; male dominationB: Domestic labour; patriarchal media; matriarchal fashion; economic dependencyC: Domestic labour; Supporting their husbands; Economic dependency; Male dominationD: Domestic labour; patriarchal media; matriarchal fashion; matriarchal economy

Question According to Delphy and Leonard how

are women ‘forced’ to support their husbands?

Responses (trick)A: provide trouble free sexB: support men in their leisure and work activitiesC: provide emotional supportD: women undertake the triple shiftE: cheap labour at home which often goes unrewarded

Question What does Parsons’ identify as being

the two main functions of the family

ResponsesA: stabilisation of gender and power relations

B: primary socialisation of parents and stabilisation of children’s personalities

C: primary socialisation of grandparents and the stabilisation of adult personalities

D: primary socialisation of children & stabilisation of adult personalities

Question What is Parsons’ sexual division of

labour?

ResponsesA: Within the isolated nuclear family members are allocated particular roles (role allocation) in order for it function correctly: men have a free role; women have expressive role

B: Within the isolated nuclear family members are allocated particular roles (role allocation) in order for it function correctly: men have instrumental role; women have expressive role

C: Within the isolated nuclear family members are allocated particular roles (role allocation) in order for it function correctly: men have expressive role; women have instrumental role