1. Feminist Sociology

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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.