PYQ Vault · Paper 1 · Political Ideologies
Distinguish between liberal feminism and radical feminism.
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
(3 Frame both as responses to women's subordination that diverge on its origin and its cure. €23) Open on the decisive fault-line — legal exclusion versus patriarchy as the root of oppression.
Body flow
Shared starting point — the subordination of women → Liberal feminism — site is legal inequality & institutional exclusion → equal access; Wollstonecraft, J.S. Mill, Friedan, Harriet Taylor, Okin → state as instrument; accepts the public-private distinction → Radical feminism — root is patriarchy as structural male domination → Millett, Firestone, Dworkin, MacKinnon → Carol Hanisch — "the personal is political"; rejects the public-private divide
Counter-view
They part on three counts — site (institutions vs patriarchal structure), scope (public sphere vs private life), and method (reform vs structural transformation).
Conclusion routes
@Q Liberal feminism seeks inclusion; radical feminism demands dismantling the gendered order that makes exclusion possible. £2 Read together, they are complementary — reform secures access, structural critique exposes its limits.
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
