Feminism | Edexcel A-Level Politics (9PL0)
Feminism
- 55 questions
- 4 subtopics
- Component 2: one non-core ideology of five
- Component 2
Covers the ideology built on the analysis of patriarchy: the distinction between sex and gender, the argument over equality and difference, the traditions from liberal to postmodern feminism, and the thinkers behind them..
It covers sex, gender and patriarchy, equality, difference and intersectionality, different types of feminism and feminist thinkers and their ideas.
Sample questions from Feminism
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Sex, gender and patriarchy
What does 'sex' refer to in feminist terminology?
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The biological facts of the body — chromosomes, hormones and reproductive anatomy. -
Sex, gender and patriarchy
How do liberal feminists understand patriarchy?
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As a series of legal and social barriers that can be reformed through gradual change within existing political structures. -
Equality, difference and intersectionality
How does difference feminism contrast with equality feminism?
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That the sexes differ in outlook and disposition in ways that run deep, and that women's qualities should be honoured rather than treated as a deficiency to be corrected. -
Equality, difference and intersectionality
What does intersectionality argue about different women's experiences of patriarchy?
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That a black or working-class woman meets male dominance in a different form from a white middle-class woman, because class and race shape how it reaches her. -
Different types of feminism
According to socialist feminism, what economic system creates patriarchy?
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Capitalism creates patriarchy. -
Different types of feminism
According to post-modern feminism, how does patriarchy operate across different groups of women?
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It takes a different form for each woman according to her race, class and other aspects of her position. -
Feminist thinkers and their ideas
Why might Charlotte Perkins Gilman view the marketing of dolls and domestic play sets specifically to girls as problematic?
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Because it represents societal pressure compelling young girls to conform and prepare for motherhood through gender-specific toys. -
Feminist thinkers and their ideas
In Sheila Rowbotham's analysis, what function does the family serve for men under capitalism?
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The family serves as a place where men take refuge from alienation under the capitalist economy.
The 4 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 public and private spheres, essentialism, the sex and gender distinction, and how the different traditions define patriarchy. | 12 |
| Equality, difference and intersectionality | Recall questions on the personal as political, equality against difference feminism, and what intersectionality added to feminist thought. | 12 |
| Different types of feminism | Recall questions on liberal, radical, socialist and postmodern feminism, and on how each explains and proposes to end women's subordination. | 11 |
| Feminist thinkers and their ideas | Recall questions on Otherness, equality against difference feminism and intersectionality, and the ideas of Gilman on sex and domestic economics, de Beauvoir, Millett on the family and literature, Rowbotham on women under capitalism, and bell hooks on overlapping oppressions. | 20 |
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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