ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the different perspectives adopted by differing sections of the women's liberation movement. It introduces the main debates within the movement; and examines the socialization of girls in schools, their ideological preparation for their roles in the economy. The chapter discusses the sex divisions in education within a larger context that of women's work, paid and unpaid, within capitalism; and, finally, relate the problems of women's work to its cause: the contradictions within capitalism itself. Masculinity and femininity, with their associated (stereotypical) characteristcs, are often seen as two distinct spheres. One feature of this ideology of the two spheres is the separation of work from home. The development of commodity production meant that questions about linearity, inheritance, wealth became crucial issues. The contemporary women's liberation movement gathered force in the early 1960s; women became politicized and a radical critique developed.
