FEMINISM AND CONJUGAL ROLES.

TYPES OF FEMINISM THAT TALKED ABOUT CONJUGAL ROLES

POST FEMINIST
LIBERAL FEMINIST
MARXIST FEMINIST RADICAL FEMINIST

LIBERAL FEMINIST
- Is an idea of equality of opportunity (S Wendell - 1987)
- In conjugal relationship men and women are allowed to choose freely their role and how they
performed it on the family context (I Sharma - 2013)
- It shows that this type of feminism are the way of creating a gender balance in the family.( D Satz -
2004)
 Where some women can focus on choosing only domestic labour and child bearing and some can
focus on career and combined it with family and work resposibilites.
- What is equality of opportunity? Is that men and women and women can compete equally in private
and public dominans.

MARXIST FEMINIST
- The explanation of gender inequalities in conjugal roles in capitalist societies can be connected to the
idea of Marxist about economic equalities. (SG Carmichael - 2016).
- Women are perform as service role in the family (unpaid servants).(R Antonopoulos - 2009)
 This role is sometimes are willingly being done by women as their partner unable or unwillingly
to do it.
- As many women entering paid employment they may double exploited which is in public sphere as
paid worker an in private sphere as unpaid worker as the benefit of men.
- Marsden (1993) said that women are perform a triple shift which is the emotional work they invest
time and effort in the psychological well of family members
- Marxist feminists, claimed that women suffered two form of economic exploitation (A Ferguson -
2004):
1. Patriarchal: unpaid dosmestic labourer for the benefit of men.
2. capitalist: paid employees for the profits of ruling class.
- Capitalism is the caused of female oppression (penindasan) because it involves the relation of …

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