Gender and sexuality
What Gender and sexuality means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Connected to Victorian anxieties about female sexuality and the concept of the 'fallen woman', including Rossetti's rehabilitative work at the Highgate Penitentiary.
How the gun alters traditional masculine and feminine roles within the household, alongside the almost sexual thrill of destruction.
Topics that use Gender and sexuality
- 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 – Christina Rossetti Selected Poems, editor Dinah Roe (Penguin, 2008) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Aging and mortality
- Alienation
- Anaphora
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