Category: Women and gender studies

This paper is the second short analysis of the semester. Attached are all of the needed readings, as well as the instructions. PLEASE NOTE: the instructions outline week 2-5 as they outline how the assignment needs to be done – this paper will be based on weeks 8-11!!!!! I have provided a screenshot of the weeks/topics as well. Please try to keep this under 500 words (400-500 words). No outside sources can be used. Only what I have provided. You can either use a scene from either of the videos linked below, an image, or a quote from the readings to write the short analysis about. Please also reference the powerpoint provided to tie back to course material. Video links: https://youtu.be/ZhdTAwkDu1Q

(let me know if you have issues opening – they are both Beyonce videos). All of the attached documents (readings, music videos, lecture) must all be cited in MLA (if they are used). Please see the short analysis guidelines/screenshot for all details before writing. Let me know if you would like articles from additional weeks for support. Thanks!!

Read https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/charts-gender-inequality-women-deliver/
Answer
What is most surprising differences between women then and now? What about between women in various parts of the world?

Please organize your paper to include a 12 font, double spaced format. Please provide 3 references at the end of your paper on a third page. Select one day over the next few days and write down everything you ate for the day. Include the serving sizes (example: 6 potato chips; 12 oz sprite). Include the percentages of sodium, sugar, fats also. Grading Criteria Maximum Points List all the foods you ate during the day you selected and include serving sizes 30 How does it compare to meeting the recommended requirements? Provide detail. 20 What alternatives could you have selected to make your food choices more nutritious that day? 20 Look at a food label. Is the label misleading when you examine serving size? (Ex: There are single wrapped muffins which provide the nutrition content, but when you look at the serving size, it may say the muffin is a 2-3 serving size. Who eats 1/3 or 1/2 of a muffin?) Can labels be misleading? 13 Correct and proper grammar used.
No spelling errors 8 Referenced at least 3 website sources 9
Think about our important role as educators when we coach other women about various nutritional needs over the age span and to be more focused on prevention and wellness.

Please answer three of the four prompts. I have attached the reading you will need for them. Please answer each of the three prompts with a full page write up ending with a total of 3. I have added prompts you will need and added titles of reading that can be found online at the end I am a white heterosexual 21 year old female. · Judith Lorber, “The Social Construction of Gender”
· Anne Fausto-Sterling, “Dueling Dualisms”
· Julia Serano, “Transgender People and ‘Biological Sex’ Myths”
· Maddie Sofia & Sabrina Strings, “Fat Phobia and its Racist Past and Present”
· Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality” (CW: r*pe, sexual violence)
· C.L. Cole and Shannon L.C. Cate, “Compulsory Gender and Transgender Existence: Adrienne Rich’s Queer Possibility”
· Constance Grady, “The Waves of Feminism, and Why People Keep Fighting over Them, Explained”
· Angela Davis, Women, Race, and Class, “Ch. 4: Racism in the Woman Suffrage Movement” (CW: racist language)
· Audre Lorde, “The Masters Tools”
· The Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement”
· Radicalesbians, “The Woman-Identified Woman”
· Jo Carrillo, “And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You”
· Pat Mainardi, “The Politics of Housework”
· Anne Koedt, “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” (CW: explicit discussions of sex)

1) According to Harrington, why does gender matter when it comes to economic independence? What does the gendered wage gap have to do with violence against women?
2) After reading Mahan, what are the racial orgins of U.S. Domestic Violence law?
3) After reading Harrington, what is the connection between abuse and financial dependence? What gendered dynamics exist in your own home with regard to the “gendered division of labor”? Is this something you have adopted in your own expectations of yourself and do you see these roles as helping or hurting your opportunities in the workforce?
4) Critical Thinking Question

1) According to Harrington, why does gender matter when it comes to economic independence? What does the gendered wage gap have to do with violence against women?
2) After reading Mahan, what are the racial orgins of U.S. Domestic Violence law?
3) After reading Harrington, what is the connection between abuse and financial dependence? What gendered dynamics exist in your own home with regard to the “gendered division of labor”? Is this something you have adopted in your own expectations of yourself and do you see these roles as helping or hurting your opportunities in the workforce?
4) Critical Thinking Question

1) Using Arendt’s frame, define power, strength, force, authority, and violence. Specifically, compare power and violence and demonstrate your understanding of the difference between the terms. Arendt suggests that the concept of “non-violent power” is a redundancy. What does this mean?
2) Choose one quote from the Mackinnon reading and describe its meaning in connection to the ongoing war in Gaza. 3) What happens in the Hunting Ground film?

Chapters 7 & 8 Reproductive Health & Family Systems – Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions
ISBN: 9780197622629
By: Susan M. Shaw; Janet Lee
The media has made a big deal out of the “working mom” versus “stay-at-home mom” debate for years. Women often debate with one another about what is the “right” thing to do. Taking what you have read about health, reproduction, family systems, and the information from the videos, identify at least two institutionalized factors that may contribute to the imbalance of equity (ability to work for pay, domestic labor, care tasks, mental load, etc.) in the family, society, etc. for most women and how might those barriers be overcome to allow more equitable forms of “choice”? Use information from the course content to support your answers. This is not a place for unsupported opinions but identifying and accounting for your own socialization can help bridge the gap in understanding that we each have based upon our own intersectionality (i.e. My personal perspective is that of a middle-aged, cisgender, white female raised in a repressive evangelical religious structure while living in poverty). Questions to consider when forming your response:
You do NOT need to answer all of these questions but you should address the major themes of “choice”, systems, power, gender, socialization, and privilege that appear in the prompts. We want to see how you connect the concepts we have discussed so far throughout the course.
What are some specific issues that women may face if they a) stay home or b) work outside the home?
What types of issues influence the decision for a woman to stay home?
Can this always be considered a “choice” for everyone?
How does the “choice” intersect with privilege, inequality, gender roles, or other concepts we have discussed in class so far?
How does reproductive health influence the role of women in the family unit?
Think about planning for childcare, schooling, etc. during the height of COVID and the impact it may have had on decisions to work outside the home.
What is the role of the various family systems discussed in the text in creating or supporting whether a woman works outside the home? The balance of labor within the home? Lastly, in what ways do the institutionalized factors you identified influence the decision of women to work outside the home?

Read: Rodriguez, For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts (required text this semester) few selected Chapters:
Preface and Intro
“Politics of Respectability”
“The Male Gaze”
“Decoloniality”
These responses should be a FULL page typed double spaced. Grading is complete/incomplete.
These should have a title of your choice, a brief summary in a complete paragraph giving title of the reading and the author, four direct quotations from the text (with page number), and last, respond briefly to two of the following questions:
What were my first impressions and personal responses of the reading?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the essay/article/chapter?
What are the major points or themes of the essay/article/chapter?
What are some significant passages that support the main themes of the essay/article/chapter?
If I chose an aspect of this text to further research or Google, what would it be, and why?
How does the reading relate to my own ethnicity, class, and gender experiences?
In what ways can I link the reading to the contemporary world? To another reading?
What interesting fact or significant idea from this text would I choose to share with a relative or friend?
Do I like the material? Why or why not?
What don’t I understand? What questions do I have?

This is a research project based on a project proposal which I have attached. Please include multiple sources including the ones given in the project proposal and ones that aren’t included. The research paper will need a research question answered with solutions and sources. The professor expects us to do research to write this paper. Make sure proper and relevant quotations are used within the paper. Please feel free to reach out to me and ask any questions.
I have also included a few sources that should be used named
– Peggy Orenstein Source
– Rebecca Solnit, The Longest War
– Rebecca Solnit on the #MeToo Backlash (https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-the-metoo-backlash/)