Identify and clearly decribe one marxist study of the family and
accurately explain why it is classified as being Marxist.

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Request for Question Clarification by shananigans-ga on 22 Apr 2003 20:59 PDT

Hi 85,

Unfortunately, we can't do entire essays for you! However, we can give
you a helping hand with organising them, picking out relevant points
etc. Do you have a study in mind, or should we pick one ourselves?
Given that we can't write you an essay, do you need to be able to
access this study online, or can it be one from a library (that maybe
you won't be able to get your hands on)?

shananigans-ga

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Clarification of Question by 85-ga on 23 Apr 2003 17:45 PDT

I would like one of marxist study of the family and a brief
explaination, because I have an esay of 3500 words on this topic.
Therefore I do not want you to write my essay for me, just brief
explaination.

The paper I found on Marxism and the family can be viewed at
http://www.sbc.edu.hk/sbc-kcw/KWOK.htm.

This paper,by Kwok Chi Wai,  talks about a shift that occurred in the
family structure in China in the 1900's with the advent of Marxism.
This change culminated in 1959 with the Marriage Law of the People's
Republic of China which was based more equal rights than male
dominance...a Marxist idea.  However, although women made real strides
in having equal rights the males never completely gave up the dominant
position.

To quote the paper:

"Finally, as we evaluate Marxist theory, we can find that in reality
socialist revolution has not led to the abolition in family life in
China, even in Russia. Further, there is no real equality between
sexes in socialist society, even though the women come closer to
achieving equality with men socially, educationally, and
occupationally. Marxist perspective has the limitation in a sense that
what they predict in these aspects has not come true."


Hope this paper is of relevance and help in writing your essay.

-shiva777