Feminism

Strands: Liberal, Socialist, Radical, Post-modern.

Assessed in

Paper 2, Section B

Specification sections

Key terms

Set thinkers

Specification requirements

Ideas and principlesSpecification requirement
- •Sex and gender, patriarchy, the personal is political, equality and difference feminism, and intersectionality
Different types of feminismSpecification requirement
- •Liberal, socialist, radical and post-modern feminism
Feminist thinkers and their ideasSpecification requirement
- •Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Simone de Beauvoir, Kate Millett, Sheila Rowbotham and bell hooks

Source to checkParaphrased from Pearson’s A level Politics specification, Issue 4 (first teaching September 2026, first assessment June 2028). Requirement detail is entered as each topic is developed.

Current affairs

Relations between the branches

Supreme Court rules that “sex” in the Equality Act means biological sex

The judgment shows the Supreme Court interpreting statute on a deeply contested social question. It sits where rights, the role of the judiciary and ideological debate meet, and its practical effect on single-sex services was still being worked out in 2026.

16 April 2025 (judgment) · Case · DevelopingApproved

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Sources

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1A level Politics specification, Issue 4
Pearson Edexcel · 2026 · SpecificationOpened 4 November 2026
2Edexcel AS and A level Politics specification amendments
Pearson · 22 June 2026 · SpecificationOpened 4 November 2026