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Feminist Sociology

Key Terms Patriarchal – A social system in which the father is the head of the family and men have authority over women and children

Introduction Feminist sociologists are studying how women are not equal to men in society, men control women’s lives (their jobs, their finances and their bodies. Historian Gerda Lerner argues that patriarchal systems are historical

Thinker: Dorothy Smith (1926-) Canadian sociologist who studies women and education Studies subfields such as feminist theory, family studies and methodology Founded the standpoint theory and Institutional Ethnography Examines how women are alienated from certain things because men have more power

Current Research “Third World Woman” – idea that all women around the world have one identity and implies they all suffer from oppression in the same way.