Response Paper II
Due: Friday, May 8, by midnight, to CourseWorks > Assignments
Format: 4–6 pages, double spaced
Assignment: Limiting yourself to the texts we’ve read so far, please argue for/against a specific answer to one of the following questions:
- What lesson should today’s Barnard/Columbia students draw from the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality?
- Please translate into English: “On ne naît pas femme : on le devient.”
- Reconsider: “Do you have to be a lesbian to be a feminist?”
- “Biological sex”—is there one? are there many?
- Re-read pp. 685–86 of the DSM-V: Could heterosexuality qualify as a “paraphilic disorder” thus defined?
The best papers will
- focus on a single aspect of an answer that the student is genuinely interested in;
- clearly state and vigorously defend an arguable thesis;
- be accessible to a typical undergraduate student who has not taken our class;
- have an opinion and speak in the student’s own voice; and
- go beyond our discussions in a way insightful to the rest of the class.