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Part 1: Position paper (3 pages)

Selected Readings from Disch, Parts VI & VII

• "Families" - Estelle Disch

• "Contemporary Challenges to Black Women's Reproductive Rights" Jeanne Flavin

• "The Transformation of Family Life" - Lillian B. Rubin (pg. 304-313)

• "Dilemmas of Involved Fatherhood" - Kathleen Gerson

• "Missing in Interaction" - Myra and David Sadker

• "‘What about the Boys?' What the Current Debate Tells Us-and Don't Tell Us-About Boys in School" - Michael S. Kimmel

• "Does Gender Matter?" - Ben A. Barres

• "Black and Female: Reflections on Graduate School"- bell hooks

The purpose of this paper is to stimulate your thinking about who you are, how you perceive the world, and how you arrived at the beliefs you now hold about sex and gender. This will be a position paper in which you declare your position on a particular topic, and support your position through supporting evidence, from both outside sources (text, research) as well as your own experience (epistemic perspective).
Please choose one of the following questions to explore in your essay. Be sure to indicate the question you are answering:

1. How does gender inequality hinder our society from progress?

2. What social problem does gender inequality cause?

3. Does society or a person define gender?

4. Can culturally sanctioned gender roles negatively affect adolescents' mental health?

5. Who or what defines the concepts of "masculinity" and "femininity" in modern society?

6. Would humanity be more developed today if gender stereotypes never existed?

7. Would our society be better if more women were in power?

8. Why is the concept of feminism frequently interpreted negatively?

9. Self-determination of women in professions: Modern contradictions. Describe the character of a woman's self-determination as a professional in today's society.

10. Should gender and racial equality be taught in elementary school?

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