focus on the rise of three convergent revolutions in American society; the Middle Class, the federal state, and psychiatry. These forces were engaged in the early attempts to create a legal and social framework for controlling sexuality and thereby defining “normative” sexuality.
In this essay you should focus on the institutions enforcing this push to create rules for normative sexual identities. How did the social organization, legal institutions, and medical fields represent class or gender imperatives?
The essay should begin with a very short introduction (about 2-4 sentences) that announces your overall thesis. Keep your intro simple. You do not need extensive setup or context. Just answer the question and provide the sub-arguments that support your answer. (These will be the arguments the hold up your answer that race or gender were important.)
Format Requirements:
essay should be 2-3 pages*, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font, 1” margins. Not following these EXACT formatting instructions will result in point deductions.
*2-3pages is a minimum length requirement
In outline form, the essay should look like this:
Introduction (2-4 sentences, with thesis statement that answers the assigned question. Refer to the “intro template” above)
Supporting Argument #1 (Begin each paragraph with a topic sentence. Whether this is one or two paragraphs this sub-section should contain a clear supporting argument for your main assertion).
Supporting Argument #2 (same as supporting argument #1 )
Supporting Argument #3 (same as paragraph #1. This is not a requirement. You can write this essay with just two supporting arguments if that feels complete.)
Do not include a conclusion in this essay
Using Evidence
For evidence in your supporting paragraphs, you can incorporate brief quotations from the readings. However, simply paraphrasing is enough. Do not rely on long quotations that take up too much space. Choose just the most revealing four or five words from a passage and build your ideas around it.
Citations:
Do not worry about a bibliography or about formal footnotes or endnotes for these brief response essays. At the end of a sentence with quoted material or specific information, just provide a brief parenthetical citation. For the Kathleen Brown, Taking the Trade reading, abbreviate it as KB: TT, along with the page number. Thus, a sentence that quotes from page 18 should end (KB:TT, 18).
