theoretical perspectives on gender inequalities

radical feminist

• firestone: biologically oppressed

• Dworkin: women’s sons= potential betrayer

  • eval: fails to explain why women have different levels of status etc.

• french: men rape with their eyes, laws and codes

  evaluation: liberal- Somerville, ignores progress women made

liberal

• Oakley: gender is social construct

  • canalisation-toys teach gender roles

    evaluation: self-negating prophecy e.g. ladette

• Sharpe: order of priority reversed

• Somerville: other feminists fail to acknowledge progress

  • evaluation: radicals- underestimates patriarchal ideology

black feminism

• Brewer: triple oppression

• Crenshaw: intersectionality

  • eval: dividing feminism- less effective in creating change

• mirza: pro-school subculture

• Davidson: concrete ceiling

  • eval: low n.o of black women in high positions at work, girls outperform boys

post-feminism

• Kilbourne: unrealistic beauty standards

• bates: incels- blame women for lack of success in romance

  eval- cochrane: internet= 4th wave feminism

• Walby: 6 patriarchal structures e.g. housework

marxist feminism

• beechy: reserve army of labour

  • evaluation: barron and norris 5C’s

• Ansley: takers of sh*t- soak up frustrations of men

  • schlafly: should motivate men

• Feeley: Authoritarian ideology

  • evaluation: Morgan- decline in nuclear family

• Benston: Domestic labour for free

  • parsons: expressive female

• Kerr: serve 3 bosses- boss, husband’s boss, husband

functionalism

• Durkheim: organic analogy

  • evaluation: Rastogi- human capital, men more successful- prioritise work

• Murdock: value consensus on gender division of labour

  • evaluation: no clear division of labour, women make up 50% of workplace= outdated

• Parsons:

  • expressive female

  • instrumental male

    • evaluation: hakim- rational choice theory

new right

• Murray: family= basic unit of enforcing N+V’s

• Dennis: not carrying key function when at work

  • eval: role only women can provide= sexist

• Schlafly: should motivate men

  • nuclear family efficient

  • no success gained from work compared to raising child

weberianism

• Weber: social closure

  • eval: feminists- glass ceiling

• Barron and Norris: Dual labour market

• edgell: career interrupted- move for husband job

  • eval: Purcell- 7 years after uni, men overtake