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This 7 page paper explores the historical development and varieties of the feminist perspective in sociology by examining the feminist theories (or lack thereof ) of Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Talcott Parsons and Dorothy Smith. Specifically discussed is the contribution of the feminist perspective in the understanding of society, and does it deserve a separate and distinct place in the study of sociology. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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best: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" (Austen 3). The women of
the nineteenth century were hardly what one would describe as liberated. They were regarded as only being of value to society in terms of child-bearing and their world consisted
of home and family. Women were regarded simply as child-bearers and keepers of the home and hearth. The only identity wives and mothers ever acquired within society
was through their husbands and sons. This paper was sold by , Inc. As Linda K. Kerber wrote in her study of America following the Revolutionary
War, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America, "Motherhood was discussed as if it were a fourth branch of government, a device that ensured social control in
the gentlest possible way" (200). Similarly, women were overlooked in science as well. Moral philosophy, beginning with the ancient Greeks emphasized the pursuit of "the good life,"
but it was understood that this referred to men, not women. Social science was equally negligent and studies were concentrated on male behavior, leaving the role of women virtually
ignored. Suddenly, the Industrial Revolution swept over Europe and America, and Western societies were never quite the same. Women were now not regarded simply as wives and mothers,
they were now factory workers. With women now outside the home and in the workplace, they were enjoying their first taste of independence, but not social equality.
It was still the same mans world it had always been, but now there were more and more women alone in the big cities, either the victims of abuse or
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