A2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND TEXT ADAPTATION
CUPCAKES AND KALASHNIKOVS – WOMEN’S RIGHTS & FEMINISM
Articles to read and research
· The Social Aspects of Birth Control
· Sluts I
· The Iron Butterfly: Helen Gurley Brown
· If This is Sex, I’m Glad I’m English
· Georgia O’Keeffe
Questions to research
· What can you find out about the history of feminism and women’s liberation? At the end of your research you shold be able to answer the following questions
· What did the suffragettes want and what did they do to get it?
· What was the ‘second wave’ of feminism in the US and UK?
· What kinds of concerns did the second wave have?
· What is thedifference between ‘liberal feminism’ and ‘radical feminism’?
· What inequalities still exist in the UK today?
· Where do women currently have significantly fewer rights than in the UK?
