Essay Instructions: Course ..Womens-Realities-2011B01-HUMU-200-9201
In the past 20 years, research on violence against women has demonstrated that women of all bacfbackgrounds experienced violence, often at the hands of men they love. In fact, the far-ranging physical and emotional consequences of violence against women make it a major public health and criminal justice concern in the United States. Whether in the form of rape, domestic violence, or childhood sexual abuse, violence against women represents an abuse of power in a misogynist culture. When violence occurs in the family, as in the case of domestic violence and incest, a cloak of privacy surrounds it, frequently silencing its victims. The feminist insistence on the political nature of private life enabled women to talk about the experience of violence, revealing how widespread it was and shattering the myths surrounding it.
TEXBOOKS ONLY
Read WIR Part 7 pp. 478-533. Scan through the articles in this section. read carefully
Kesselman, A., McNair, L.D., & Schniedewind, N. (2008). Women images and realities: A multicultural anthology (4th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Hooks, B. (2000). Feminist theory: From margin to center (2nd ed.). Brooklyn, NY: South End Press.
Click inside this folder to read the information titled, “Week 7 Notes.”
WEEK 7 "NOTES"
Violence Against Women in Intimate Relationships
* Ann Jones gives us an overview of violence against women in the home, as well as in dating relationships, and suggests steps that our society must take to end it.
* Lanette Fisher-Hertz tells the story of Cassie, a young girl who watches her mother's attempts to steer clear of her boyfriend;s angry outburst.
* Mitsuye Yamada share the terror of living with her abuser.
* From a Latina Anonima, a chicana feminist in graduate school, writes of how she looks back on an abusive relationship.
* Margaretta Wan Ling and Cheng Imm Tan discuss the experience of Asian-American women who face numerous obstacles at shelters for battered women and law enforcement agencies, and those imposed by the traditions of their own culture.
Sexual Violence and Rape
* Susan Griffin draws rape out of the realm of inexplicable atrocities and places it squarely in the context of a patriarchal society.
* Ntozake Shange show how the irrational violence of rape occurs "with no immediate cause".
* Peggy Reeves surveys studies of acquaintance rape on college campuses and its impact on women.
Incestuous Sexual Abuse
* Lanette Fisher-Hertz provides an analysis of the extent to which child sexual abuse laws essentially protect abusers while they place the burden of prevention on children.
* Peri Rainbow shares her compelling account of recovering from childhood incest.
* Ruth Whitman writes a poem recounting a grandmother's experience of incest 80 years earlier
Review the instructions for Paper B below.|
PAPER B
Paper B is your last paper this term. It is due Sunday of Week 8, so you will have to work on it. It is worth 70 points. You will write a 5-7 page double spaced paper based on an interview with your mother, grandmother or another appropriate family member or older woman you have known for years. You will combine your interview with TEXT READINGS and your own ideas. There are SEVEN steps to complete this assignment. Make sure you follow EACH step.
FIRST, read the interview questions below, and make a note of others you may wish to add (it is optional to add your own).
SECOND, arrange a time for your interview and prepare to take notes or record so that you have a complete record. You will be responsible for submitting notes from your interview as an addendum of your paper. It may be typed or a scanned copy of hand-written notes.
THIRD, conduct the interview.
Required questions are as follows (if you are interviewing someone other than your mother, substitute that person’s name or title for “mother.”:
1. What is your mother's view of the women's movement? Has she ever spoken out for the rights of women? What are the most important issues for the women's movement in your mother's opinion? How did she come to believe these were the most important issues? Were there life events that persuaded her to feel they were the most important? Did your mother ever participate in any activities in women's organizations for women's rights?
2. Does your mother feel there are gender biases in the schools?
3. How does your mother feel about the role of media in her self image as a woman?
4. How does your mother feel about her sexual freedom including her view of her rights to reproductive freedom?
5. What does your mother feel are the attitudes about women in the workforce today? Is it a fair playing field? What were they like when she was younger?
6. How have areas of law affected your mother's identity? i.e. Divorce, Sexual Discrimination, Domestic Violence, Social Security, Abortion, Job Discrimination, and Welfare.
7. Has your mother ever been abused by the healthcare system?
8. Has your mother ever been the victim of racism, class prejudice, ageism or poverty?
9. How does your mother feel we can best help women of abuse or who have been battered?
10. What is your mother's definition of her own "identity" as an individual, as a member of a family, and as a member of society?
FOURTH, after you have completed the interview questions and the transcript of the answers, write your paper using BOLD HEADINGS from the questions. This paper will be more like a technical report divided by headings that show the issues/topics that we have studied in the class. Then under each heading compare your own thinking, your mother's thinking, and our text authors' thinking about those social issues. Are they the same? Different? How? You must use proper citation format for any quotes from our texts AND for any quotes from your interview. The interview is just another "source" and needs proper citation as well. Cite your interviewee's words and use (Grandmother, 2011, Question #4) as the citation. Then your paper should end with a summary statement -- expressing what you have learned about yourself and response to the interview itself.
FIFTH: INPORTANT Be sure you included your interview! NOTES! as an addendum to your final essay.1 PAGE
SIXTH: Follow the scholarly formatting guidelines below.
1. When you present direct quotations from the text, please quote each precisely using quotation marks and then cite the text author’s name, the publication date and page number in parentheses followed by a period. (No period after the quotation; just leave a blank space followed by the reference in parentheses with a period after the closing parenthesis.) When you cite the quotation from my comments, merely enclose my last name in parenthesis, along with the number of the unit. The reference to the text at the end of the paper is formatted as follows: Author, First initial, Second Initial. (Date). Title of work. Location: Publisher. That is, please follow the APA style guidelines for citations and references found in the APA style guide in.
2. Please run spell check and grammar check to ensure that there are no errors. This is a formal essay. The paper will be scholarly in tone and will be organized similar to a research article. Avoid all contractions and colloquialisms.
3. Please keep the format of the paper simple and do not include any extra spaces (no title page) or blank areas. Use a 12 point Times New Roman font with 1" margins and make certain that it is easily readable. Kindly single-space this and all submissions for this course, and insert a blank line between paragraphs so that there is a clear boundary between. Include a properly formatted title at the top and make certain that your name appears just under the title.
SEVENTH: Save your paper as a doc or rtf with your name and the assignment name in the file, using Last Name_Assignment. So, if your name were Alicia Jackson, and this is Essay 1, you would title it Jackson_Essay 1. Upload your paper here.
