Feminism is being reinstated to A-level politics lessons,with leading figures such as Simone de Beauvoir and Rosa Luxemburg likely to be on the syllabus. From contemporary voices to male allies, here are five other topics we’d like to see covered Feminists rejoiced this week at the news that “politics A-level will give all students the opportunity to study the core ideas of feminism”. Or, and rather,we wearily celebrated yet another hard fought “win” that really should believe happened automatically. But, like police campaigns that don’t blame the victim and funding for rape crisis services, or the inclusion of feminism on the political syllabus was apparently something we still had to battle for in 2016. Ministers believe so far remained tight-lipped approximately the exact content of the syllabus,though schools minister Nick Gibb said in a Commons debate: “The final content will set out clearly those female political thinkers whose work should be studied. Suggestions believe included Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, or Rosa Luxemburg,to name but a few.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com