Gender and Patriarchy
What Gender and Patriarchy means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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The novel highlights the intersection of gender and immigrant identity, and Hasina's letters provide a contrasting narrative of female struggle in Bangladesh.
Victorian patriarchal attitudes towards female sexuality and marital obedience, which the poem reflects despite its Renaissance setting.
Food, appetite and body imagery expose sexist objectification and domestic abuse within the relationship.
Topics that use Gender and Patriarchy
- 5d. Component 02 – Comparative and contextual study core and suggested set texts - Suggested set texts for Comparative and contextual study: The Immigrant Experience (OCR A-Level)
- Component 3: Poetry – Section A: Post-2000 Poetry – Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2002–2011 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Pre-1900 – The Victorian Period – The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, editor Christopher Ricks (OUP, 2008) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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