English Literature A-Level
Gender politics
What Gender politics means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Gender politics
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Reference: AQA
How texts dramatise the distribution of power between men and women: who speaks, who is silenced, who owns property, who is confined to domestic space and who may act publicly.
Topics that use Gender politics
- Elements of political and social protest writing (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Ambition and power
- Culture, history and continuity over time
- Domestic and interior life under oppression
- Genre
- Historical and political drama
- Institutional authority
- Institutions, hierarchy and control
- Intersection
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