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Ideologies of Gender Roles

The ideology of something is a lived experience and isn’t categorized as true or false for it is always true since it is lived. Ideologies are used to obscure the structures of domination. As quoted by Terry Eagleton in “Marxism and Literary Criticism:”
‘superstructure’ are certain forms of law and politics, a certain kind of state, whose essential function is to legitimate the power of the social class which owns the means of economic production, it also consists of certain ‘definite forms of social consciousness’ which is what Marxism designates as ideology.
(Eagleton 5)

By not accepting certain ideologies one can create an inter movement between the super structure and the base. If one is more passive to the certain ideology the structure that is already set up will not be disturbed. Gender role attitudes are generally conceived as opinions and beliefs about the ways that family and work roles do and should differ based on sex. The gender role ideology lea...

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