Couples Flashcards
(9 cards)
What is Dobash and Dobash’s view of domestic view within the family?
Marriage and the nuclear family is the key institution of patriarchy and the main source of women’s oppression.
Therefore, domestic violence is the inevitable because it serves to preserve the power men have over women.
What is Ansley’s view of domestic abuse within the family?
Domestic violence is the product of capitalism.
This is due to male workers being exploited in the workplace so take their fustrations out on their wives.
Calling women ‘takers of shit’.
What is Parson’s view on the domestic division of labour?
Men and women have biologically suite roles.
The Expressive role - women being a homemaker.
The Instrumental role - men being the breadwinner.
What is Bott’s view on the domestic division of labour?
Segregated conjugal roles: the roles between men and women are completely separate, not spending social and leisure time together but separate.
Joint conjugal roles: couples sharing domestic tasks and leisure time.
What are Willmot and Young’s view on the division of labour?
Due to the increase in joint conjugal roles, this means that there are now more symmetrical families.
What is the march of progress view on if couples are more equal?
The introduction of the ‘new man’ means that couples have an equal share of housework and childcare.
What are the two main burden’s women carry in and out of the family?
Dual Burden: (Feri and Smith) women doing paid work and domestic work.
Triple shift: (Duncombe and Marsden) women carrying out the dual burden but also emotional work.
(family is more symmetrical) What does Gershuny state?
Women being in more full-time job roles leads to a more equal division of labour in the home.
