Gender
Gender
Description
Reading memos are short essays intended to help focus your reactions to the readings and to practice making use of diverse materials in writing. You should focus, as you write these memos, on an audience of other sociology students at your level. You should assume, however, that members of your audience might not necessarily have read the particular selections that you are discussing.
Each memo should begin by saying just enough about the author(s) and selection of readings/videos in question to allow readers unfamiliar with that selection to put it in context. The rest of the memo should provide a creative response to the selection, not just a rehash or summary of its content.
However, any claims you may make beyond the reading must be based on academic evidence, which must also be cited. Thus, a variety of reading-memo formats are possible. Memos should accomplish one of the following:
- Identify a claim in the selections that you dispute, and explain why you disagree with the logic or the facts of the claim.
- Pose an interesting unanswered question and show how it follows from the reading(s).
- Suggest a method for resolving an issue raised by the reading(s).
A series of three reading memos will be assigned. These should make use of content assigned in the relevant section of the course, and use additional academic sources to support your argument. Any documents/media you use MUST be cited in MLA, APA, or Chicago style. Works cited does not count toward the page length.Formatting:
Top of page must include: Name, Course, Instructor, Date
Title must be Centered, Bold, and Italicized
12-point Times New Roman for
Double-Spaced, NO additional space between paragraphs
1,100 Words!!
1-inch margins on ALL SIDES
Must use in-text citations AND a Bibliography page.ATTACHED ARE THE READINGS FROM CLASS.
Possible Memo Topics
These are only topics. Make sure that your paper still has a thesis statement and argument!!
The men’s movement
The women’s movement
Toys and play of boys and girls
Differences in male and female earning capacity
Lesbians and homosexuals and relationshipsSex segregated careers
The effects of divorce and gender
Changes in gender behavior with age
Use of the masculine in language