feminism - gender Flashcards
Marxist Feminist
What is Ansley saying
Gender Inequality
Women are the “takers of shit”
Women act as sponges for husbands frustrations after their long day of being exploited at work
This relationship must be maintained in order for capitalism to continue
This then perpetuate gender inequality since women reinforce their oppression and lack of power
Oakley
Canalisation
Manipulation
Girls n Boys are treated differently since birth
McRobbie
Bedroom Culture
Girlies are locked up
Sylvia Walby
Intersectionality
Women have now entered the sphere of employment
Paid employment, household, state, media, violence against women act as restritions for women
What is Benston saying
Wife must keep husband in “good running order” because he is bread winner
Men cannot protest, risk losing job
Wives nurture husbands, owners of capital have no reason to pay for health-care systems
Women dependent on men because nuclear family
Women perform unpaid domestic labour
How does the nuclear family ideology link to gender inequality
Maintains dominant position of bourgeoisie: enables fathers to pass wealth to sons
Women perform unpaid domestic labour
- Women make up reserve army of labour
What is the Reserve Army of Labour
Refers to the unemployed and underemployed in capitalist society
How does reserve army of labour theory explain gender inequality
Bruegel
Women are’t main workers in society
If increase in supply & demand -> women will be employed to do some labour
work for very low wages in temporary jobs
Evaluation of Benston
(-) Crisis of masculinity questions idea of males being breadwinner
* State males in society are in crisis and that females are over taking them in the labour market and other areas of social life
Males are the ones facing gender inequality rather than females (housewives)
* Farrell (2013) claimed that “glass cellar” rather than glass ceiling
Glass cellar refers to lowest ranking professions in USA
* 24 out of 25 of them are filled by 85-100% of males
Evaluation of Marxist Feminist ideas
Nuclear family & Reserve Army of Labour
(-) Focus on macro structural issues that affect gender inequality
- eg Nuclear family ideology
Small scale interactions ignored
-provide more valid understanding of inequality
- eg Running of family budget
Evaluation of Ansley
(-) Hochschild (2003) states we have “commercialised our intimate life”
- Argues people pay for services that family used to provide
e.g. we pay someone to do the domestic chores
Women now do paid work, thus, they pay for someone to do housework, life coaches etc
- Females becoming more unavailable to perform tasks they once did
Disagrees with ideas about how females are housewives who soothe and emotionally absorb their husband’s anger
