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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