Who are female athletes and how they are represented in the media based on appearance rather than ability.

Who are female athletes and how they are represented in the media based on appearance rather than ability.

Focus on intersectionality and sports media.

Your essay is your opportunity to analyze popular culture forms of your choice using an intersectional gender-focused method of analysis.

Content Requirements

Refer to a minimum of 4-6 scholarly sources in your essay, such as academic books or peer-reviewed journal articles.
In addition to your 4-6 scholarly sources:
You may use a maximum of 2 of the assigned course readings
You may use a maximum of 2 Internet references, such as online newspapers, magazines, websites, or blogs.
Peer-reviewed, scholarly articles published online, and peer- reviewed articles accessed through the University Library’s online databases do not count as internet sources as referred to in point a(ii) above, and you may use as many of those as you require.

Wikipedia or similar sources are not scholarly sources.
Cite your sources properly using MLA or APA style. For more detailed instructions on MLA or APA style, please consult the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University.

Analyze How Western Society Has Shaped the Lives and Creativity of the Identified Key Creative Women.

Women Creating Culture 

Some women may have outwardly conformed to these expectations while their work challenged the roles/images in subversive and creative ways while others openly rebelled. As you delve deeper into these issues, consider the dynamics of gender and power in creative expression. For example, how does the subject matter in paintings and texts (or performance) reflect the dynamics of gender and power? Who has privilege? Who has power? How do these creative women sometimes deconstruct (break down) dominant male patterns while reconstructing female experience?

As you discuss how society has impacted women’s creativity, remember to consider the significance of race, class, and/or ethnicity of the three key figures. How does the artist’s class, for example, impact both the importance of her contributions and the ways society shaped her life and work? Does her ethnicity or race determine what subjects she writes about or paints or how she performs? Again, provide detailed examples from the creative women’s work (compositions, performances, sculpture, paintings, writings, etc.) to support your discussion (three to four pages).
In Summary, be sure that your Women Creating Culture Paper:

Identifies Three Key Figures from Different Time Periods and Genres, and Discusses Their Artistic Contributions to Culture

Discusses How the Identified Key Figures’ Made Important Creative Contributions to Culture in Their Own Area, and Provides Detailed Illustrations from Their Work

Analyzes How Western Society Has Shaped the Lives and Creativity of the Identified Key Creative Women

Analyzes the Impact of Race, Class, and/or Ethnicity of the Three Identified Key Creative Women’s Lives and Work The Women Creating Culture paper

Must be six to eight double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style rr resource.

Must include a separate title page with the following:

Title of paper o Student’s name

Course name and number o Instructor’s name

Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013

Which images and roles were acceptable and which were outside the norm?

Women Creating Culture

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review Did Women Have a Renaissance? e. and From 1971: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? rr Also watch The Story of Women and Art: Episode 3.

For this assignment, you will examine women’s contributions to the creation of culture in western society through a discussion of three key figures (artists, poets, writers, dancers, performers, composers, etc.) from our required or recommended resources. In your paper, you will also analyze how western society has shaped these women’s lives and their creativity.

Begin by selecting three key figures from different time periods and different genres who have made artistic contributions to our culture. You may either consider these elements separately as explained below or weave the ideas together as you discuss each of your key figures. Having selected your three key figures, analyze how their creativity made important contributions to culture in their own era and in some cases, how their contributions reverberated to different disciplines and different eras and time periods, perhaps even being felt today. You should provide detailed discussion of examples from their creative work (paintings, poetry, performance, methods of dance, music, etc.) to support your claim on the importance of their contributions. This section must be three to four pages in length.

Next, as you examine how society has shaped these women’s lives and creativity, consider some of the following questions.

How did prescribed gender roles for women impact their creativity?

What images defined women (seductress, mother, virgin, etc.)?

Which images and roles were acceptable and which were outside the norm?

How did these narrowly-defined gender roles and images (such as the “nature of women”) shape the lives and work of your three key figures?

Some women may have outwardly conformed to these expectations while their work challenged the roles/images in subversive and creative ways while others openly rebelled. As you delve deeper into these issues, consider the dynamics of gender and power in creative expression. For example, how does the subject matter in paintings and texts (or performance) reflect the dynamics of gender and power? Who has privilege? Who has power? How do these creative women sometimes deconstruct (break down) dominant males naftprric whiles rproncto !cling fpmalp pynpripnrp?

Examine how gender is being presented,performed,contrasted,or framed within pop culture.

Pop Culture Essay

Instructions:

In this first formal writing assignment, you will write a brief essay (2 double-spaced pages) where you closely examine how gender is being presented, performed, contrasted, or framed within pop culture. You can analyze the news, a movie, a song, advertising images, art, or other pieces of pop culture. You will earn full credit on this assignment by completing it and turning it in on time.

What is the equal rights amendment?

Equal rights amendment

Research the topic

What is the equal rights amendment?

Watch the following video:

Reflect on a section, word, quote, or phrase that strikes you as interesting or provocative. In the style of a personal journal, write a reaction to or reflection of this reading. Is any of this new information to you?How do you feel about it? What do you want to explore?What questions do you have?

How does gender intersect with other identity categories such as ability,age,country of origin,race,religion,sexual orientation, size and social class.

READING GENDER,SEX,AND POWER IN A MEMOIR

Prompt: Students will analyze a memoir using the questions outlined below to examine intersectionality and systems of power/privilege/inequality while creating meaningful connections between the authors’ and their own lived experiences.

Outline:

An introduction paragraph

How does the author’s gender impact their lived experiences?

How does gender intersect with other identity categories such as ability,age,country of origin,race,religion,sexual orientation, size and social class etc.

How have the author’s lived experiences been shaped by systems of power/privilege/inequality? How has their lived experiences gone against the “mythic norm” when it comes to systems of power/privilege/inequality?

How does the author’s lived experiences compare to your own experiences?

What did you learn about gender, sex, and power reading this book?

A conclusion paragraph that ties the paper together

Paper Requirements:

5-7 pages, not including the works cited page.
Answers to the questions listed above for the body of the paper
MLA formatted, typed, double-spaced, 12 pt. font, 1-inch margins.
Make sure to include a title for your essay, page numbers, and a “Name Block” in the top left corner all according to MLA formatting.
Minimum of three quotes from any of the assigned readings so far in class.
Minimum of three quotes from the primary source book chosen.
A works cited page that includes all works you are quoting in the paper.