Topic:
Gender is culturally constructed like race. When you are born, you are born with a sex, which is either male or female. However, Gender is used as a status symbol for male and female. If you are male, you are supposed to act masculine and strong and if you are female, you are supposed to be less masculine and act sensitive. Gender roles have been changing but it is still a controversial issue in which many people get offended when they are talked to about their roles and why are they acting a certain way, if they are not acting like a man or a woman. There are a lot of contemporary issues which is a concern in the topic of gender in todays societies. There are always hot topics in the news, a trial going on, something happening in sports, politics, and industries. Gender inequality has been prevalent in society for many years, but its source is debatable. Problems are being shown in the media recently, Famous personalities are being accused of sexual misconduct towards people that wanted to make it big in the Hollywood Industry. What I am going to investigate is what does a concern for gender adds to our understanding of the current controversies in the media today? How can we understand the media through the lens of gender stratification and gender violence? What does an appreciation for gender and gender politics add to this discussion? What does it add to our understanding of underlying issues? How does looking at gender shine new light on the issue, or help us see things from a new perspective?
Paper Instructions:
Your final paper will consist of a literature review on a topic related to gender. This is intended as an opportunity for students to explore an area of anthropology of gender-related to their own work or interests. The goal is to research how a topic has been approached differently by different authors within the discipline. As such, while the paper is primarily a summary and does not require any independent original research, you should still have an argument about how the various authors compare and contrast to one another. Students must choose a topic and then summarize how it has been written about by anthropologists. You should choose 5-7 different authors to cover in your paper, and at least one article or book by each author. They can be authors from the syllabus or not, but if you choose authors from the syllabus please do not force them into a topic that isnt a good fit. For example, if you are writing about plastic surgery and gender, Edmonds and Plemons would both be excellent choices. But you would need to find your other authors from outside of the syllabus, as none of the other works are focused on that. While Emily Martins work is related given her approaches to the body and identity, they are not a good fit for a paper on how plastic surgery is discussed in the anthropology of gender. Topics should be fairly concrete. While you dont have to choose a topic we covered in class, we can look at some of our readings as examples. You could absolutely do a literature review on the relationship between gender and plastic surgery or masculinity and video games, for example. But in contrast, masculinity would be much too broad of a topic for a paper of this length. I encourage you to focus on something related to your own work. My hope is that you can then use this paper and the citations in your other writing. One of the most difficult parts of writing a literature review is identifying whether the author of a random journal article or book is part of the field of anthropology, and counts as a meaningful contributor to the discourse on a certain topic. For the purposes of this paper, any peer-reviewed article or book written by an individual with a PhD in anthropology is fine, although you are still encouraged to use discretion in figuring out which articles are really at the heart of a topic. If you would like to include something written by an author who is not an anthropologist, just email me and I can confirm if its alright. This is not meant to make more work for you, but to instead help you assess whether readings are really relevant to this class.
I have attached a file of an example of a literature review. Please take a look and follow the directions please. As well as look at the topic that Im trying to discuss.
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