Question

Daly and Chesney-Lind considered five insights to be distinctive features of feminist theory? List and describe these features, using at least 250 words.

Lilly, J. R., Cullen, F. T., & Ball, R. A. (2015). Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences. California: Sage Publication.

Answer 1

Daly and Chesney -Lind propounded feminist theory wherein they considered five insights to be the distinctive features of the theory..Thee five significant thoughts are as follows:

1.Gender is not not a natural fact but a social, historical and cultural product.It is related to biological sex differences and reproductive capacities

2.Gender and gender relations order social life and social institutions in fundamental ways

3.Gennder Relations and consructs of Masculinity and femininity are not symmetrical but are based on an organizing principles of Men's superiority and social and political-economical dominance over women

4.Systems of knowledge reflect men's view of the natural and social world,the production of knowlege is gendered

5.Women should be at the center of the intellectual inquiry, not peripheral, invisible or appendages to men