ASSIGNMENT 5: Exploring Gender Paradigm

Consider: (click on the highlighted words below to open the works)

• The story “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses Download The Girls in Their Summer Dresses,”

• The 2 episodes from the movie The Stepford Wives:

The Trailer (Links to an external site.)and at the Day Spa episode (Links to an external site.)

• The advertisement Nike- Dream Crazier (Links to an external site.).

• The show “Roseanne” Season 1 Episode 1 (Links to an external site.)

Analysis-response: Write 1.5-2.5 pages of your review and explanation on the topic of Gender:

Your writing should be in coherently/ logically organized paragraphs. Think of it as a short essay: Start with introducing what is gender from the Patriarchal perspective, and how is gender re-defined through a modern lens / via Judith Butler’s theory. (consider the Gender Handout and Videos of Butler’s Theory I provided in Assignment 4.) Then, as body paragraphs discuss the 2 questions below. (you can have 2 paragraphs or more if needed.) End with a brief paragraph of YOUR OPINION about Gender.

• How is “Gender Ideology” presented in each of these 4 works of different genres?

• When considering the term “The Cult of the True Woman”- are the women in these works presenting as the “Classical True Woman” or as the “Modern Woman” prototype? Explain referring to each of these works.