AO1 Most feminists agree that oppression operates in both the public and the private sphere. AO2 Most feminists agree that all relationships between men and women, not just those in the public sphere, are based on power and dominance (bell hooks, Millett). [IJ] There is agreement between most socialist, radical and post-modern feminists that the personal is the political so the private sphere really matters. AO1 Most feminists see the conditioning in the family in the private sphere playing a key role in oppression. AO2 Most feminists argue that the family plays several roles in perpetuating oppression through conditioning, the distribution of housework, and socialisation into artificial gender roles and stereotypes (de Beauvoir) and the teaching of dominator values (bell hooks). [IJ] There is agreement between most strands of feminism that gender stereotypes, roles and dominator values are enforced in the private sphere. AO1 Most feminists agree that the personal is political and this informs the political action that is needed. AO2 Most feminists agree that what happens in the private realm dictates the revolutionary action needed, which would include the overthrow of patriarchy to ensure equality (Millett, bell hooks, Rowbotham). [IJ] There is agreement between most socialist, radical and post-modern feminists that their understanding of the personal is political helps define their political action.

AO1 Liberal feminism tends to focus on gender inequalities from the public sphere, while radical feminists see the family unit in the private sphere as the root cause of oppression. AO2 Liberal feminism focuses on equal access for women and men to the public sphere by reform to ensure political and legal equality, rather than the radical transformation of the private sphere as argued by radical feminists (Millett). [IJ] Shows division over the importance of the public and the private sphere. AO1 Differences over whether the personal is the political lead to very different conclusions over the action that is needed. AO2 Liberal feminists argue for gradual reforms to secure legal and political equality in the public sphere while radical (Millett) and postmodern feminists (bell hooks) argue for revolutionary action to overthrow the patriarchy taught in the private sphere; socialist feminists (Rowbotham) focus on capitalism in particular. [IJ] Shows disagreements within feminism about whether the personal is in fact political. AO1 There are disagreements within feminism over the role played by the family in the private realm. AO2 Socialist feminists argue the family in capitalism confines women to unpaid reproductive labour (Rowbotham); radical feminists see the family as the primary source of patriarchal oppression (Millett); post-modern feminism sees the family as teaching the values of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy (bell hooks). [IJ] There is a disagreement between socialist, radical and post-modern feminism over the role of the private sphere in shaping the oppression of women.