found that women took in a double burden (doing paid work‚ working in the house and looking after the children). From a feminist perspective the family helps to maintain the exciting social orders‚ feminist call the existing social order patriarchy‚ patriarchy is the combination of systems‚ ideology and culture practices which make sure men have power. Feminist theories argue that the family supports and reproduces inequalities between men and women. The real idea is that women are dependent on
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Assess functionalist and the New Right views on the family Functionalists believe that the family have specific or traditional functions within the family. One function of the family would be reproduction or having children as this is imperative for the world as they will be the future workforce. For example family businesses will need to pass down the factories/shops to the next generation in the family for the continuing of the ancestors business. Other functions include economic maintenance
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only a “man-like” woman can be an adequate representation of women overall. Overall‚ this displays Hawthorne’s anti-female‚ and pro-male‚ bias through his description of women as worse than men‚ and the description shows Hawthorne’s favor of the patriarchy because he believes that women are “unsuitable‚” for the most part‚ to take place in government and societal structures. Furthermore‚ “The rulers‚ and the wise and learned men of the community‚ were longer in acknowledging the influence of Hester’s
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According to the dictionary‚ motherhood is the state or experience of having and raising a child (“Motherhood”). During slavery the children were not born to their mother they were born to the capital; each child that was born meant more wealth to the slave owners. White slave owners were not charged with rape when it regarded a Black female slave because they had no agency over their own body. For a while immigrant women were penalized for having children with black men resulting in the women and
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the Constitution. According to the radical school of Feminism‚ the inequality that exists between men and women is as a result of the oppression of women by their male counterparts in a testosterone laden social order. To put it in blunt terms‚ patriarchy is the vehicle of female subordination and domination in society‚ with men assuming the role of beneficiaries even if they personally do not oppress women. One manner in which gender inequality is accelerated in society is through law‚ which
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Gothic literature demonstrates the consequences of disrupting the natural order of things. Consider the texts you have read in the light of this comment. Gothic literatures have characters who disrupt the natural order‚ and ends up with consequences‚ which can be seen as negative or positive. Macbeth (pre-gothic)‚ Wuthering Heights (traditional gothic)‚ and The Bloody Chamber (modern gothic) show the protagonists challenging and breaking the patriarchal society‚ which were simple seen as the natural
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small group in-class presentations Outline: Know the basic information for of each of the following items and be able to explain how it is related to this part of our course. 1) Early Women’s Movement 2) Pre-history - Matriarchy vs. Patriarchy 3) The Woman Question i) Early critiques – Camille dePizan‚ Poullain dela Barre‚ Astell 4) Age of Enlightenment- Definition‚ tenets‚ philosophies‚ dates ii) Natural Rights Revolutions (a) Descartes
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quite feminist attitude taken by Shakespeare toward the gender identity and sexuality of women through the complex friendships and simple personality traits he created between characters; however‚ the ending of the play suggests the opposite‚ that patriarchy is sustained as a result of the silence and obedience of the women characters. A look at the male friendships provides a great contrast to the females of this play. William Carroll previews the thought of male friendships being changed and transformed
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comfortable in its own shell. It was a society that was hopeful for change‚ but at the same time‚ it was unwelcoming of the realities Tendulkar was addressing through his works. Tendulkar’s works revolved around various themes like revenge‚ hypocrisy‚ patriarchy and violence. His works are timeless and‚ though around fifty years old‚ they are as relevant today as they were then. Tendulkar’s plays were aimed at the middle class‚ and he always managed to unknowingly shock the middle class. He showed them
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economic situation. Her mother’s marriage and her own seem to be the only viable solution for their problems. Somewhat helpful but Antoinette still had to “struggle against the survival of the Caribbean and European patriarchy and empire” (Drake 195). The European colonialism and patriarchy on Antoinette is a mirroring image of what European Colonialism did to the Afro-Caribbean people. In her struggle to find an identity she became a “zombie”‚ a “ghost”‚ according to the ex-slaves or an “Antoinette-marionette”
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