SOC 502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: All Boys, Feminist Theory, Masculinity
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Patriarchy, masculinity, male violence: why do men batter, virtually all theories on this are useless but two; one is good one is crazy. They all come from traditional patratchal family structures; father was the absolute dictator and expected obedience and submittance from wife and children and they expect this for themselves. Liberal feminists were fighting for other white middle class women to have access to male dominated courses that would lead to male dominated jobs. 2. legislation reforms: making it illegal to fire women for getting pregnant or married, fighting for oay equity. 3. resocialization: superwomen get up in the morning and go to work then help children, cook, clean, etc do everything, radical feminism, all about patriarchy which is the system of male dominance, power, and. Oppression the end of patriarchy, rape laws, marital rape laws: this system trickled down to allow for individual men to abuse and be violent to women, they were fighting for battered women shelters.
