Category: Gender studies

The Assignment:
Define bodily autonomy in your own words, and briefly trace how it’s shown up in two of our course topics or assigned readings. [~1-2 pages]
Then, reflect on how the issue of bodily autonomy has shown up for you in your own life. Be specific! Have you ever felt constrained in terms of what you are able to decide about or do with your own body? Are these constraints legal? Social? Cultural? Religious? What do such constraints tell you about broader social norms regarding gender and sexuality? [~1-2 pages]

Essay on Women’s Work in Historical Context
Write an essay of approximately
1500–2000 words that covers a topic of importance in the history of women’s
work. For example, you may want to compare the work situations of different
women, analyze how different women contributed to Canada’s settler colonial
economy, learn more about the pay and working conditions of young women in
early factories, or examine the attitudes and expectations relative to
motherhood in early 20th-century Canada. Give some thought to your topic selection
and try to choose something that deeply interests you.
Follow these steps to prepare your paper:
1.           Your essay
will need a clear thesis statement. Use the following questions as guidelines
in preparing your essay and thesis statement:
a. What general issue or question are you
addressing in your essay, and why is it important? Within this general issue or
question, what specific questions do you wish to answer? Write down all the
questions you have and use them to guide your reading and research.
b. what appear to be the most important findings
with respect to the specific questions you have? Can you identify any major
themes and findings? Do all authors agree on the issues you are addressing? If
not, what might explain these differing viewpoints? What types of evidence do
different authors offer in support of their views?
c. Reflecting on your reading and on your own
experience and ideas, what have you learned about the questions you started
with? What, if any, new questions have emerged?
d. What are the implications of your findings for
understanding women’s work more generally?
2.           Once you
have considered these questions, develop your thesis statement. What is the
main argument that your paper will be making regarding your topic?
3.           Please
choose peer reviewed or sources can be accessible by reader. Thank you!

Write a critical-analytical essay on Twelfth Night and the performances of gender and/or sexuality. You will be writing an essay on gender and sexuality. Twelfth Night is just your case study. Do not make statements or opinions but formulate arguments. The length of the paper is 2000 words. It must include and cite the 4 references. You should cite (quote and paraphrase) from the literature frequently. you must make footnotes that include the page and which Literature you have quoted or paraphrased to support your argument. 

Critical Reflection Paper: For this assignment, you will be asked to write a 4-5
page, double-spaced essay that asks you to exercise both reflective and critical
thinking. You will be asked to write about two memorable and in some way(s)
connected experiences in your life that, at the time or perhaps not until now,
impacted how you saw yourself in relation to two aspect(s) of your identity, one
of which must be your gender (for gender, you may focus on your gender
identity, your gender assignment, and/or your gender roles). Other aspects of
your identity may include: your social class, your sexuality, your race and/or
ethnicity, your body image. You will need to explore the intersections between
these aspects of your identity (for example, gender identity and sexuality) and to
reflect on your experience(s) from your newly-informed WGST perspective.
As part of the critical thinking component of the assignment, you will be asked
to connect your experience to two “texts” from the course list on D2L, one
of which must be a reading. You will be required to incorporate two concepts,
one from each “text”, that helped you to reframe/conceptualize your
experience(s). You will need to be as specific as possible in your choice of
concepts, and be able to identify how the writers/speakers define and use such
concepts as racism, sexism, classism, sizeism, ableism, heteronormativity,
gender roles, gender identity, and gender stratification, for example. Be sure that
you fully integrate the concepts from the texts into your discussion and explain
the connections to your experience(s) clearly. You are not expected to provide an
analysis of the texts in this paper, but you are expected to understand how the
writer/speaker explores and defines the concepts. Your paper should have an
introduction (which lays out your experience(s) in brief and perhaps mentions the
connection to the two concepts from the readings), unified body paragraphs with
a clear focus, and a conclusion (in which you provide an overall summary and
feminist-informed conceptualization of your experience(s). You will need to
include a Works Cited page at the end of your paper and to include in-text
citations if you quote from the texts. You may use APA or MLA format. A word of
caution: be sparing in your use of quotations; I want to see that you can explain
the concepts in your own words and integrate them meaningfully into your
discussion.
*I will be respectful of your life experience(s), and your paper will be kept in the
strictest confidence. Please note that you are asked to provide only details of
your experience(s) that you feel comfortable sharing.
Criteria for Evaluation
–level of detail
–depth of self-reflection and critical thinking
–relevant and clear use and understanding of the two concepts from the texts
–clear use of your two identity categories (one of which must be gender)
–clarity of expression
–unified paragraphs focusing on a central organizing idea
–organization of sentences within and between paragraphs

Papers should be 8-10 pages in length, use MLA formatting, and should be analytical in nature. While writing, one needs to explore the supportive and argumentative materials within your topic. Do not use too much vocabularly and keep easy to understand.
Your papers should have no fewer than 6-7 sources of which most need to be primary resources.
Lastly, your papers must include an ethical component…please do not omit this crucial task.

Must watch the documentary, Border Crossings: Half the Sky . Consider the following questions (if
helpful): 1) What are the material conditions faced by the women/girls; 2) HOW
is the film silent about the political/historical and economic context (which
should be important for your critique); What is the perspective of the film?
(i.e. who is the audience supposed to identify with?); and 4) Applying the
concepts from the readings in section 4, what are some main transnational
feminist critiques of this Western “feminist” documentary?  Please use at least three (3) readings
from this section of the class (section iv).  Use the 3 articles that are attached 

As an exercise in reading Joseph Mankiewicz’s All
About Eve through the lenses of feminist, gender, and queer studies lenses:
Discuss the characters
of Eve Harrington and Addison DeWitt in the film All About Eve as
“queer” — both in the sense of being outside of the mainstream of
others in their 
category of identity (as female, as male, as actress, as
critic, as member of society), and in the sense of there being hints that they
are sexually attracted to and
identified with the same sex.
In your analysis, can All
About Eve be read as a “queer film”? For a definition of 
“queer
film,” see Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin, “Introduction: What is
Queer 
Film?,” in Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in
America 
(Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006): 9-12. (Bb)
How can All About Eve
be read using the lenses of feminist and gender studies? 

for this literature review, I want to go in depth on the gender wage gap in vietnam. Exploring the history, social norms, and culture 

Our final unit explored sexuality and the state; or, specifically, how sex and sexuality are discussed and policed both at the state and private level. For this final unit paper, I would like for you to venture an original argument that demonstrates your own understanding of how sex and sexuality are policed and/or negotiated, using the materials from Unit III. once those words are out in social space, there are reactions to those evocations like censorship, violence, and legislation, but there is also acceptance, world-making, and community building. I am looking for you to make sense and make connections between and among the articles that we read for the final unit. What do they all mean, together?
We covered topics such as obscenity, scholarship and dirty work, policing sexuality, sexuality and state violence (like Guild Press and Womack), and social policing. What do these all mean together? What do they all demonstrate about Critical Sexuality, both past and present? You will be required to bring at least four articles into conversation together. As with other unit papers, no outside research nor use of digital assistance like ChatGPT. You will be graded based on your use of course content to support your claim and argument.
One example of an approach would be to use Kiernan and Rubin to consider what happened to Karl Andersson and Louisa Allen. Another approach might be to consider “Dirty work” as it applies to articles like Allan, Irvine, Andersson, and Clark.
This paper must be thesis-driven, 2-3 pages in length, and must cite from at least four of the articles covered in this unit. MLA formatting required and a works cited page must be included.

Faculty of
Liberal Arts and Professional Studies
Department of Equity
Studies
Professor T. McCauley
Take Home Final Exam Due: May
23, 2024
Gendered Encounters  HREQ 1920.6A
Worth 20 %
Essay
Question: Worth 20 Marks Answer Only One of the following questions in
formal essay style.  (Spelling, grammar, and
sentence structure are important)
(3 to 4 pages double-spaced).
(Include APA references and a bibliography page)
1.    
Gendered Encounters in
contemporary society may be non-binary. Discuss this statement using empirical
examples from our course text by Amy Kaler.
2.    
Sociology is an approach to understanding
issues such as gender and identity. 
Suggest how this research is changing our understanding of the binary
categories of masculie and feminine.