WSTA01F 2018 INTRODUCTION TO WOMENS AND GENDER STUDIES
Womens & Gender Studies Program, Dept. Historical and Cultural StudiesAssignment #1:
Due: October 2. Upload to Quercus by 9:00 am AND hand in hard copy at tutorial.
Hand in 2 copies: Take a printed copy to your tutorial and hand it in at the start of the class. AND upload to the Quercus site by 9:00 am under Assignment #1)
Note: If you are unable to attend tutorial on October 2, you MUST still upload your assignment by 9:00 am AND contact your TA to make other arrangements to hand in a hard copy.
Length: 750 words
Value: 15%
Instructions: double space; 12 point font; one-inch margins; staple all pages together
Include a title page with your name, student number, title of the course, name of TA and the time of your tutorial section.Purpose of the assignment: To engage with course materials: to understand the authors arguments (not to offer your own opinion on the issue)
Only use the assigned course readings.Authors Grewal & Kaplan (2005) wrote that the two-gender system that seems so natural has not been so for all time or everywhere in the world. Write a short essay to discuss this statement you must draw on the course material (readings, films, lectures, tutorial discussions) in order to identify the evidence the authors use to challenge the sex/gender binary.Your essay should address the following questions:
2)What are the limitations of the sex/gender binary?
3)How has the sex/gender binary been imposed and regulated?
4) How has the concept of sex and gender varied across cultures and historical periods.
Your short essay must include references from multiple readings (at least 4) from weeks 2, 3 and 4. Give specific examples from the readings where possible.
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