English Literature A-Level
Female Agency and Sexuality
What Female Agency and Sexuality means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Female Agency and Sexuality
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Carter grants her female protagonists agency and embraces their darker, beastly natures, exploring female sexuality through metamorphosis and liminality.
Topics that use Female Agency and Sexuality
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- Metamorphosis and the Abhuman
- Patriarchy and Power
- The Uncanny and the Liminal
- ancient superstition and modern science
- epistolary form
- the foreign 'Other'
- Victorian gender norms
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