Is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II a feminist icon? I don’t know if she is, but a strong case could be made for it (perhaps the F Word can tell us). What better retort to those who believe that women can’t survive at the top, or cope with pressure, then to point to her? Yes, she inherited the position, but in the fifty six years since her father died, she has been a widely respected figure and is almost universally praised for the way that she has conducted herself in an age of 24-hour news and blogs where the slightest mistake gets pounced on. Can the feminist movement benefit even more from Elizabeth II however? At present, the succession to the throne is weighted in favour of males, so that any male child is automatically closer in line to the throne than his sister(s), whatever their ages. This arrangement made sense five...
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