Liberal Feminist View - Patriarchy -✔✔✔- Affecting the public sphere
- Affecting legal and political equality (past
- Affecting equality of opportunity (today)
Socialist Feminist View - Patriarchy -✔✔✔- Empahsises the economic aspects of patriarchy
- Operates in tandem with capitalism, gender subordination and class inequality being interlinked
systems of oppression
Radical Feminist View - Patriarchy -✔✔✔- Systematic
- Institutionalised
- Pervasive form of male power that is rooted in the family
- Affects all aspects of life, both public and private
Post-modern Feminist View - Patriarchy -✔✔✔- Emphasises while patriarchy is systematic,
institutionalised and pervasive there are other systems of oppression in society
- oppression based on ethnicity, sexuality etc
Liberal Feminist View - Sex and Gender -✔✔✔- Accept significant of sex differences
- Regard gender differences and the superiority of men as an artificial construct
- created by male-dominated societies
Socialist Feminist View - Sex and Gender -✔✔✔- Accept significance of sex differences to some extent
- Regard gender differences and the superiority of men as an artificial construct
- male dominated societies