English Literature A-Level
Sisterhood and female relationships
What Sisterhood and female relationships means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Sisterhood and female relationships
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A thematic focus of Austen's, to be evaluated alongside another text in the comparative component.
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- Social class, propriety, and patriarchal constraints
- stream of consciousness
- The economic vulnerability of women and the marriage market
- domestic sphere
- female interiority
- patriarchal structures
- Sense (rationality) versus sensibility (emotion)
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