How does the author’s gender impact their lived experiences?-What did you learn about gender, sex, and power reading this book?

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Memoir Paper

READING GENDER, SEX, AND POWER IN A MEMOIR – 100points

Students will read a memoir from the following list and do an analysis intersectionality and power structures that results in a 5–7-page paper. In the paper you will utilize the readings and theories we have studied in class to support your ideas. These memoirs are not at the bookstore, but they are available to purchase various places and may be available via your nearest library. That said, they are not scanned or on reserve or at the bookstore or reserved at any library. Please utilize your favorite way to obtain books. These books range in price from $9-$20.

Fairest by Meredith Talusan (2020)
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (2018)
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (2018)
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (2019)
Shrill by Lindy West (2016)
The Beauty in Breaking by Dr. Michele Harper (2020)
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors (2017)

Prompt: Students will analyze a memoir using the questions outlined below to examine intersectionality and systems of power/privilege/inequality while creating meaningful connections between the authors’ and their own lived experiences.

Outline:

An introduction paragraph with a thesis statement that guides the essay – 1 solid paragraph.
How does the author’s gender impact their lived experiences? – 1 page
How does gender intersect with other identity categories such as ability, age, country of origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, size, social class etc. – 1-2 pages
How have the author’s lived experiences been shaped by systems of power/privilege/inequality? How has their lived experiences gone against the “mythic norm” when it comes to systems of power/privilege/inequality? 1-2 pages
How does the author’s lived experiences compare to your own experiences? – 1 page
What did you learn about gender, sex, and power reading this book? – 1 page
A conclusion paragraph that ties the paper together – 1 solid paragraph.

Due Date: Budget your time and choose your due date between 10/10 and 10/24 at 11:55pm. Submit on ReggieNet under Assignments.

Late Work: You can choose your own due date, but your work will not be late unless turned in after 10/24 at 11:55pm. After that time, your paper will be graded and then 5 points deducted per calendar day late.

Paper Requirements:

5-7 pages, not including the works cited page.
Answers to the questions listed above for the body of the paper
MLA formatted, typed, double-spaced, 12 pt. font, 1-inch margins.
Make sure to include a title for your essay, page numbers, and a “Name Block” in the top left corner – all according to MLA formatting.
Minimum of three quotes from any of the assigned readings so far in class.
Minimum of three quotes from the primary source book chosen.
A works cited page that includes all works you are quoting in the paper.

What were the techniques, strategies and discourses used to take control of sexuality and restrict it or confine it to specific categories from the 17th to the 20th century?

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Queer Sexuality

Assignment

1.How does Foucault define sex and sexuality?

2.When Foucault is talking about the production of sexuality, what does he mean when he defines sexuality as a “name that can be given to a historical construct?”

3.Which are the four strategic unities that, beginning in the 18th century until late 19th century, helped form specific mechanisms of knowledge and power centering on sex?

4.In which ways are sexuality and power related?

5.How does Foucault define power?

6.What were the techniques, strategies and discourses used to take control of sexuality and restrict it or confine it to specific categories from the 17th to the 20th century?

Are there any women who are “othered” and made to appear less desiring, funny, intelligent or attractive?

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Assignment Instructions

Despite its more transgression representations of women, do you think that Sex and the City reproduces some stereotypes that feminists, in general, have tried to challenge and displace?Which?

Think of the intersectionality between gender, race, class and sexuality. Would “all” women be able to identify themselves with, enjoy or connect with those representations?

Are there any women who are “other-ed” and made to appear less desiring, funny, intelligent or attractive?

How are gender roles and ideas about gender structured and shown in what you’ve observed?

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https://carnegieendowment.org/2018/02/20/tackling-women-s-underrepresentation-in-u.s.-politics-comparative-perspectives-from-europe-pub-75315

The first 400-600 words of this should be a factual report on what you have observed in following your blog/website. Start off by telling us what your period of observation is, and what you have seen. It’s ok to use bullet points in this.
The rest of the report should consist of your critical observations on what you have seen. This means: analyze what you’ve observed by asking questions like this:

How are gender roles and ideas about gender structured and shown in what you’ve observed?

How is sexuality portrayed in what you’ve observed?

What assumptions are made and shown about the relationship between sex and gender, and/or sex and sexuality in what you’ve observed?

How does gender intersect with other axes of identity/difference (sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, etc) in what you’ve observed?

Discuss Pay Inequality in the American health care system for female African American doctors.

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Discuss Pay Inequality in the American health care system for female African American doctors.

 

Provide a transnational analysis on issues facing women in the Global South.

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Provide a transnational analysis on issues facing women in the Global South. What are some of the pitfalls of attempts by some Western feminists to examine patriarchy and oppression in non-Western contexts? How can these be mitigated?

How are women in Canada affected by gender and race? What are some of the barriers that women of colour face?

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How are women in Canada affected by gender and race? What are some of the barriers that women of colour face? What unearned benefits do white women gain from white privilege?

Choose one high profile news story in the last decade and provide an analysis through the lens of gender, race & ethnicity, and class.

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Choose one high profile news story in the last decade and provide an analysis through the lens of gender, race & ethnicity, and class.