Money income is not the only kind of benefit.
These are rather flippant examples among what were serious attempts to think critically about relationships between women and men as relationships of power” (Worrel 2001:66–67). Besides the sofa there might be a large ‘ dad’s chair’ given prime position in the living room and a smaller ‘ mum’s chair’ in the corner, reflecting traditional ideas about the proper role of women as self-sacrificing and devoted to making men comfortable.
And the three-piece suite is one example of how everyday objects might reinforce ideas about men as the head of the household. “Rearranging the home might be part of rethinking how heterosexual couples relate.Rape is always a violent crime” (Kaufman and Kimmel 2011:133). It is about having power and control over someone. “Most (and probably all) societies exist with systems of social division and social stratification, through which entire categories of people are elevated above others, providing one segment of the population with a disproportionate amount of money, power and prestige” (Macionis and Plummer 2012:232).This in spite (or perhaps on account) of the fact that, however understood, this concept signals a particularly significant social phenomenon, arguably entitled to a central position in the discipline’s vocabulary and discourse” (Turner 2006:464). “In a discipline such as sociology notorious for the difficulty it experiences in establishing widely and durably agreed definitions of its concepts, that of power (at any rate social power, which is our only concern here) stands out as one whose definition is particularly contentious and unstable.
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