Refer to at least three authors from reputable sources in your analysis. If using direct quotes please include page numbers, as well as complete citation details. Any referencing style is accepted, but it needs to be consistent.
Word length: 2,500 – 3,000 words.
An outline for your paper would look something like this:
Introduction
What is the topic of your paper, what position do you want to defend? What is your argument? What is the outlay of your paper? What do you intend to do?
Body of the paper
This forms the bulk of your paper and would consist of a series of paragraphs. In this section you would include any background information pertinent to your argument; define any terms which warrant it; provide good reasoning for the position you have taken. Provide an example or quotations from other sources to support your argument. Here too you would provide an objection to your argument and a response.
Conclusion
In this section you would sum up the main points from your argument.
Possible paper topics:
These are only topics; from any topic, you would then have to develop a thesis statement:
i) Making a distinction: concept of sex and gender
ii) Understanding the trans experience
iii) All women are oppressed
iv) Gender discrimination in the workplace goes beyond the wage gap
v) White privilege can be equated with patriarchy
vi) Feminist philosophy as a methodology
vii) Essentialism/Anti-essentialism
viii) Inclusive feminisms
ix) A birth centered culture vs. a death centered culture
x) The need to challenge oppressive cultural practices
xi) The need for ethics and epistemology in feminist philosophy
xii) Degendering society
