FEMINISM

Question 1

Basic characteristics:

Answer 1

A. most societies are patriarchal.
B. try to explain inequalities between men & women
C. seen as a conflict theory

Question 2

Sex & Gender.

Oakley (1972)

Answer 2

sex = biological differences between men & women
gender = socialised beliefs about 'masculinity' etc.

• in aborigines in Tasmania, women hunted not men
• the mbuti in Congo, men do the childcare
• in Isreal, women have always been front line soldiers
• therefore, gender is cultural not biological.

Question 3

Critique of sociology.

Abbott, Wallace & Tyler (2005)

Answer 3

‘malestream’ sociology has a masculine bias.