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‘The personal is political’ debate

Moyra Grant reviews the changing language and focus of feminist theory

Half a century on from its initial coinage, the slogan was used as part of a protest over the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court in 2018

The AQA and Edexcel specifications focus on debates about the nature of feminism, core feminist values and feminist ideas and thinkers.

Feminism, broadly, is the belief that women are systematically disadvantaged because of their sex and gender, and that these disadvantages can and should be overcome. As a political creed it goes back at least to the first wave of the eighteenth century, when liberal writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft campaigned for equality of property rights, the franchise and educational access.

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