文档介绍：SP. 401 Essay #2 Fall 2010
Length: 5-7 pages, typed, double-spaced (Times, New Roman, 12pt.)
Choose ONE of the following topics and write a 5-7 page essay in response to it. You
will need to draw specific examples from the texts we have read to support your points;
use parenthetical citations to document the sources you use. Be sure that you are
introducing your quotes adequately, creating smooth transitions between your own
writing and that of your sources. Your essay should include a clear thesis statement in
which you foreshadow your argument. Be sure to append to the essay a “Works Cited”
page; see the course handout on citation (also on website) for assistance.
1. Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The
Yellow Wallpaper are widely considered classic texts in American feminism.
Compare chapter 1 of The Feminine Mystique and The Yellow Wallpaper in terms
of: their ability to reflect upon life experience, their engagement with ideologies
of domesticity and gender roles, their persuasive and literary power within their
genres, and their visions of individual and social change. In the contemporary era,
do either or both of these texts continue to have personal and political relevance?
If “yes”, in what way? If “no”, why not?
2. Analyze the gender socialization of a person in your ag