Explain how the ideology of feminism, the meaning and significance changes, develops and evolves over time.
• Identify the ideas, policies, and principles which the idea is being used to signify,
attack or defend in the contemporary source you have identified – i.e. what does the
the idea of ‘ ‘feminism’ mean to the person using it?
• With reference to the course materials, lectures and sources provided in this module
and elsewhere, discuss how the contemporary use of the concept you have chosen
might be different (or not!) from the original or historic meaning of the concept.
For example, how might the contemporary use of the word ‘socialist’, ‘conservative’
or ‘liberal’ differ from the meaning of the concept in the 19th century, or in the mid-twentieth century? The purpose of this assignment is to examine the ways in which
