Gender, Culture & Politics
Midterm Exam - Reviewed 3/12
Due on 3/22
Answer three of the following questions. Each of your answers should be approximately two pages long (double spaced, one-inch margins, 12pt. type). You will be graded according to your ability to convey information in college-level prose. If you have writing problems, please take your midterm to the Writing Center for proofreading and correction before you submit your work.
You must use the Term Paper Checklist to catch common errors before you turn in the exam. If your midterm suffers from the errors identified in the checklist, your grade will be much lower than you might expect.
Do not try to pass off someone else's work as your own. Plagiarism will cause you to fail this entire course and riddle you with eternal shame.
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Possible Template for answers to essay questions:
Note: Using the terms supplied in this template is not plagiarism. However, be sure that you use the words that are right for the points that you are trying to convey. |
1. Summarize the Supreme Court's ruling in Bradwell v. Illinois.
2. Summarize the main points made by Simone de Beauvoir in "Woman as Other."
3. Summarize the main points made by Betty Friedan in "The Problem that Has No Name."
4. Summarize the main points made by Katha Pollitt in "Feminism's Unfinished Business."
5. Summarize the main points made by Anne Fausto-Sterling in "Two Sexes Are Not Enough."
6. Summarize some of the main events in the life and death of Harvey Milk.
7. Summarize a few major milestones in the historical evolution of the right to privacy.
8. Summarize the controversy over the publication of rape victims' names.
9. Summarize the main points made by Kathy Young in "Sexism and the Death Chamber."
10. Summarize major milestones in the life and death of Aileen Wuornos.
11. Summarize a major social phenomena or development in which ideas about gender played a determinative role.