AQA A Level Sociology Themes and Perspectives: Year 2 (Haralambos and Holborn AQA A Level Sociology)

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Criticise preceding feminist theory for claiming a ‘false universality’ (white, western heterosexual, middle class)

It tends to portray women as universally good and men as universally bad, It has been accused of man hating, not trusting all men.

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Radical-cultural feminists believe in the superiority of the feminine. According to Tong radical cultural feminists celebrate characteristics associated with femininity such as emotion, and are hostile to those characteristics associated with masculinity such as hierarchy. Liberal Feminists do not seek revolutionary changes: they want changes to take place within the existing structure. Radical feminists have often been actively involved in setting up and running refuges for women who are the victims of male violence. Socialisation into gender roles has the consequence of producing rigid, inflexible expectations of men and women. Capitalism rather than patriarchy is the principal source of women’s oppression, and capitalists are the main beneficiaries.

Under Capitalism the nuclear family becomes even more oppressive to women and women’s subordination plays a number of important functions for capitalism: The concept of patriarchy has been criticised for ignoring variations in the experience of oppression.Society is patriarchal – it is dominated and ruled by men – men are the ruling class, and women the subject class. Feminism runs across the whole A-level Sociology course, and is especially relevant to the sociology of the family.