Response Paper (~1,250-1,750 words)
Based on 2-3 paper prompts we collectively design in class, you will write a response paper that incorporates and reflects on the materials youve collected in your course notebooks. There will be time in class for you to write, brainstorm, and workshop ideas with your peers. Your papers ultimately should reflect, observe, and synthesize the notes youve gathered, and will draw connections and common threads between readings based on an issue youre interested in exploring as they pertain to the course. You will need to quote directly from at least two (2) readings from the syllabus thus far. This paper is meant to be exploratory and informally written, in order to help you build your final written project. In other words, you are closing the gap between the generative experimentation of your thinking and a thesis-driven final project.
Cite ALL your sources. Include proper footnotes or endnotes consistent with a bibliography citation style, as well as a works cited page.
Any use of ChatGPT or AI platform or tool will result in failing the course, no exceptions. This
is an English class. You are required to write. If I suspect anyone of using AI, they will be
required to attend office hours to discuss, one-on-one, materials in the course in the form of an
oral examour conversation will determine a final grade for the paper.
Stay grounded in the language of the readings through citations and close readings. Recall how we
discuss passages in class, how Kate Millett reads Henry Miller and Normal Mailer, how Barbara
Johnson reads Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, or how Shoshana Felman reads herself. I am
expecting thorough, rigorous engagements with readings.
Avoid summarizations, long block quotes, as well as general statements or comments that stray from
lecture and readings. You may include analysis of art and performance weve discussed in class,
otherwise, your paper should stick to the readings. Do not organize your paper around references to
popular culture to the extent that they cause you to stray from the texts and dip into general discourse
from being online, etc.
You are not in the class to write about what you already know, with the language you already know.
You are here to think with and through the texts were reading, and how they ask you to change your
language and way of thinking.
Please pick from one (1) of the following options:
Option 1: Write your paper addressing how and why femininity emerges and appears in relation to
two (2) of the following key terms:
Motherhood Heterosexuality Myth / Ideal
Consciousness Body Revolution
Marriage Vision / Visuality Writing / Reading
Performativity Object Other
How is femininity described? Why does it matter in relation to your chosen terms? ProvidE
definitions of your chosen key terms, which must not be general and broad (dont turn to a dictionary definition), but instead, must specifically be drawn from, and in engagement with, two (2) readings from the syllabus that weve read thus far. How do these readings approach these terms? What is their significance to these readings and their arguments/critiques? What is at stake in writing about these key terms in relation to femininity?
Option 2: Write your paper on how one might build and foster a feminist revolution in the present
day, and what the role of femininity plays in that revolution and its cultivation of a feminist consciousness, both on an individual and collective level.
You must engage with two (2) readings from the syllabus that weve read thus far. What visions of a
feminist revolution do the readings of your choosing imagine and propose? What are these readings historical contexts? How does accounting for their historical context help us see what is needed, what should happen, and what is possible in the present-> reach out if you need more sources I will upload a few:
*I was thinking of option 1 and choosing marriage and consciousness
Simone de Beauvoir, Introduction to Vol. I and Part 1, The Second Sex, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (New York: Vintage Books, 1953), 3-68.Beauvoir, Introduction to Vol. II, Ch 1 of Part 1, Ch 14 of Part 4, The Second Sex,
279-340, 721-751. Kate Millett, Part I (Instances of Sexual Politics and Theory of Sexual Politics),
Sexual Politics (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1969), 3-58.
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