Eli Zaretsky Family Analysis

Register to read the introduction… Firstly, In respect of ideological reproduction, family is the primary agent of socialization whereby to form and transmit the value consensus of capitalism. Secondly, in terms of the domestic division of labour, the capitalist system exploits the free domestic labour of the housewife; therefore the physical reproduction is costless. Thirdly, family provides an outlet for the pressure and frustrations engendered by the alienating work of a capitalist economy. Finally, the family consumes goods and services of capitalism and this allows the bourgeoisie to continue producing surplus value.
Eli Zaretsky has analysed more recent development in the family from a Marxist perspective. He argued that the family propped up the capitalism. To him the family is a place where meets male worker’s desire to control. Furthermore, Zaretsky put a lot of emphasis on the relationship …show more content…
It indicates that the view does not take any account of the oppression of women in families, and to which extent it shows absolutely negative about the family and does not give any of the positive benefits of the family to family members.

Marxist feminist nevertheless put emphasis on the exploitation of women which supply the gap. The fact that the husband has the responsibility for the production payments and family supporting acts as a discipline on his behavior at work. And it keeps him in good running order in which the wife is encouraged to satisfy her husband’s needs. In some sense, the family is as authoritarian unit designed to teach passivity not resistance. It inevitably results in the oppression of women in families which is virtually inequitable.
Next, the perspectives from Functionalist and Feminist on the family will be examined in generalities and whereby links to a holistic evaluation on Marxist