English Literature A-Level
Gender and domestic hierarchy
What Gender and domestic hierarchy means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Gender and domestic hierarchy
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The domestic conflict between Noah and his wife, whose refusal to board the ark without her gossiping friends forms a comic subplot absent from the Genesis account.
Topics that use Gender and domestic hierarchy
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Pre-1900 – The Medieval Period – Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays, editor A C Cawley (Everyman, 1993) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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