Feminism | AQA A-Level Politics (7152)
Feminism
- 84 questions
- 6 subtopics
- Paper 3: one further ideology of five
- Paper 3
The distinction between sex and gender, patriarchy, and the divide between a liberal feminism seeking equal treatment and radical, socialist and difference feminisms that dispute what equality means..
It covers sex, Gender and Patriarchy, feminist Views of the State, liberal and Radical Feminism, socialist, Difference and Post-Feminism, perkins Gilman and de Beauvoir and millett, Rowbotham and hooks.
Sample questions from Feminism
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Sex, Gender and Patriarchy
Why do many feminists argue that formal legal equality is not enough?
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Because entrenched attitudes, unequal domestic burdens and informal barriers keep outcomes unequal even where the law treats women and men identically. -
Sex, Gender and Patriarchy
State two arguments in favour of affirmative action for women.
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It counteracts structural barriers that formal equality alone cannot overcome, and it creates visible role models that reshape expectations for the next generation. -
Feminist Views of the State
Why do many feminists regard the family as central to women's oppression?
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Because it assigns women unpaid domestic and caring work, makes them economically dependent, and teaches each new generation its gender roles. -
Feminist Views of the State
Why is feminism usually described as a diverse rather than a single ideology?
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Because its strands disagree fundamentally about the root cause of women's subordination and about whether reform or revolution is needed to remove it. -
Liberal and Radical Feminism
How does liberal feminism's individualism shape its idea of equality?
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It treats equality as equal opportunity for individuals rather than equal outcomes for women as a group, which is why many liberals are uneasy about quotas. -
Liberal and Radical Feminism
Define consciousness-raising.
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Consciousness-raising is women meeting to share personal experience so as to recognise that private difficulties are the product of shared, structural oppression. -
Socialist, Difference and Post-Feminism
State two criticisms of difference feminism.
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It risks reinforcing the very stereotypes that feminism set out to attack, and its biological reasoning can be used to justify keeping women in traditional roles. -
Socialist, Difference and Post-Feminism
Why do some critics see post-feminism as a backlash?
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Because it can be used to dismiss continuing feminist argument as outdated or self-pitying, and so weakens the case for further change.
The 6 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Sex, Gender and Patriarchy | Recall questions on the distinction between sex and gender and why it matters, on patriarchy and on what equality of treatment demands. | 17 |
| Feminist Views of the State | Recall questions on how liberal, radical and socialist feminists each regard the state and on what the personal being political means. | 13 |
| Liberal and Radical Feminism | Recall questions on liberal feminism's reformist aims and focus on the public sphere, and on the radical feminist analysis of oppression, consciousness-raising, separatism and the politics of sexuality and the family. | 9 |
| Socialist, Difference and Post-Feminism | Recall questions on socialist feminism and its disagreement with radicals, difference, cultural and ecofeminism, post-feminism and the criticisms of it, and what all strands of feminism share. | 15 |
| Perkins Gilman and de Beauvoir | Recall questions on Perkins Gilman's reform Darwinism, the sexuo-economic relation and androcentric culture, and on de Beauvoir's existentialist feminism, woman as the Other, and her views of marriage, motherhood and socialism. | 12 |
| Millett, Rowbotham and hooks | Recall questions on Millett's sexual politics and patriarchy, Rowbotham's socialist feminism and women hidden from history, and bell hooks on intersectionality, inclusive feminism and education as the practice of freedom. | 18 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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