Gender Differences and Roles discussion
Writing
To complete this essay, you’ll need to interview at least three members (you can make them up) of your family, and then reflect on what they tell you about how they learned their gender roles. (im a female)You’ll want to have a candid conversation with them about their own views of what it means to be a man or a woman in our contemporary society. (plz try your best to add some Chinese background with the essay)
Here are a few questions you might use, but feel free to add your own. Your essay should not be a string of answers to questions, but the answers should be woven into the essay. In other words, you need to analyze what each person says and compare it to your own thoughts and those of the authors/speakers we’ve been studying this quarter:
How did you learn to be a man or a woman?
Did you change your mind about what it meant to be a man or a woman as you were growing up?
What does the term “feminist masculinity” mean to you?
What are the roles of men and women in your family? Have these changed over time? Why do you think that is so?
Would you prefer to have been born/raised as a different gender? Why? or why not?
BTW – I know that some of you may not have family members immediately available to you, so if that’s the case then please think about those people who you consider your “chosen family” and interview them. However, it won’t be a very powerful or diverse interview if you only interview people who are your own age, or who are your friends, or people who always agree with you. It will be more interesting to interview people of various ages: children, elders, and peers.
500-750 words (or longer if you like), double spaced. You will need to quote: 3 different family members (at least once each), AND BOTH Rebecca Solnit and bell hooks (at least once each)
there are two books: “Feminism is for everybody” and “the mother of all questions”
https://excoradfeminisms.files.wordpress.com/2010/… Bell Hooks
https://read.amazon.com/ Rebecca Solnit
