Women’s Studies Question – Description
Our midterm for this course will be a proposal for your final paper. You will pick an object and theory of your choice and write an essay that argues your position. For example, if your objects of research can be:
media (TV episodes, music videos, song, poems, comic, advertisements,)
legislation (law or ruling and its effect on a particular population)
discourse (analysis of discourse surrounding various cultural events, analysis of tiktok trends,) ex: reactions to Budweiser Dylan Mulvaney
historical analysis (browsing various online archives and writing and analyzing an object)
issue and organization analysis (analysis on a particular issue discussed in class and an organization that provides resources for said issue)
Choosing a feminist studies framework from our class:
Decolonial Feminist Theories
Black Feminist Theories
Gender Abolition
reproductive justice
Abolition feminism
Midterm Proposal:
A proposal of what your final project will be, you will write two paragraphs answering the following for your project:
What topic is your final project tackling and why is this topic important?
What is your project arguing or teaching?
How does the topic relate to broader issues in Feminist and Gender studies and activism?
What theories will inform your work?
2. Annotated Bibliography: Annotated Bibliography requires you to turn in a bibliography of at least four (3 minimum from class and one outside source) sources along with annotations of how this reading influences, provides evidence, provides a theoretical tool for your bigger paper or project ideas. An annotated bibliography requires you to provide a citation in the style you choose (MLA or Chicago) along with a 5-6 sentence paragraph providing a brief summary of the text including how this source is beneficial for your paper. You must write this paragraph for each source.
Formatting:
12pt Font
Times New Roman
Double Spaced
MLA of Chicago Manual Style Citations
Example of an annotation:
Combahee River Collective. “A Black Feminist Statement”. Words of Fire: An Anthology of Black Feminist Thought (1990)
A Black Feminist Statement written by The Combahee River Collective outlines the genesis of contemporary Black feminism, ideology, and challenges that arise in organizing Black feminists, and Black feminist issues and practice. This statement was written in 1977 by three members of the collective; Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, and Demita Frazier in an attempt to document and articulate the philosophy of the Combahee River collective. The Combahee River Collective saw their task to have an integrated analysis and struggle against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression. Their integrated analysis and practice were based on “the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking”. (232) The Combahee River Collective statement also framed the genesis of Black feminism as a Black woman’s personal experience. This source provides my paper with a genealogy of how intersectionality has been developed by Black feminists.
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