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Final Research Paper Eng 102 Length: 10 pages Due date: 4/30/21 (After uploading your paper to Blackboard, double check if it’s properly uploaded

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Final Research Paper

Eng 102

Length: 10 pages

Due date: 4/30/21 (After uploading your paper to Blackboard, double check if it’s properly uploaded. I will accept the paper till 5/2, Sunday midnight. I’ll take a few points off, but I’ll accept the paper. Submissions later than 5/2/21 WILL NOT BE accepted.)

All papers must be turned in Blackboard. I will not accept papers in my inbox.

Readings:

“A Doll’s House” – Henrik Ibsen (p. 194)

“I Want a Wife – Judy Brady (Uploaded in Blackboard)

“Sex sells sex, Not Women’s Sports” – Mary Jo Kane (Uploaded in Blackboard)

“What if Shakespeare had had a sister” – Virginia Woolf (p. 548)

“Barbie Doll” – Marge Piercy (p. 513)

“No Name Woman” – Maxine Hong Kingston – (p. 769)

“Things Cheaply Had” – Taslima Nasrin (527)

Use any (at least) 5 readings and (at least) 5 external sources (books, peer reviewed journals, newspaper articles) from Mercer databases.

 

Points to Consider: Nora has a moment of epiphany when she realizes her marriage for what it truly is – a doll’s house, where she is the doll who has been playing the “little lark/ featherbrain/ spendthrift” – a helpless person that her husband expects her to be, in the Norwegian playwright Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” (1879). But when she needs him to be her knight in shining armor, to step up and protect her from blame or at least show an understanding of the circumstances under which she did what she did, she recognizes him for who he is – a pompous, self-important coward, and her marriage, a sham. Woolf, in 1929, traces the condition of women in the U.K from the 15^th century in her quest to find why women did not author any of the brilliant literature that men wrote in the times of Shakespeare. She refers to Currer Bell and George Eliot – women writers, as late as in the 19^th century, who used pen names of men to survive the “hostile” world that held up an unrealistic, one-sided virtue of chastity for women.  Kingston’s “No Name Woman” (1970) talks about the Chinese society in the 1920s that has erased the existence of a woman because she had a child out of wedlock. Brady, through her heavy satire in “I want a wife” (1971) holds a mirror up to the 1970’s American society where a wife is not a person but merely an all-consuming role. Piercy’s “Barbie Doll” (1973) is a scathing commentary on how society reduces women to just their appearance, essentially objectifying them. From the Bangladeshi poet Nasrin’s poem (1991), we understand that the “thing” that is most inexpensively bought is in fact a woman; her voice is silenced by a “golden lock”. In “Sex Sells Sex, Not Women’s Sports” (2011), Kane makes an argument on how media in their portrayal reduce women athletes to their looks and sexuality. In these works, spanning two centuries from all across the world and cultures, we see the universality in the plight of women. We are in 2021 America now. Prompt: Based on the readings and your research, come up with your own argument on the state/condition of women in today’s America. You are free to also incorporate personal experience/observation in a limited way, but be sure that the majority of your paper focuses on the texts, and any time you mention personal experience, make sure it directly supports your argument.

 

Checklist:

• Title (Come up with your own title; try to make it reflect your position in the paper. A title is not the topic given or the statement of thesis. Do not use quotes or italics on your title.)
• A strong arguable thesis.
• Introduction leading naturally into the body of the essay.
• Fully developed paragraphs.
• A conclusion that provides closure.
• MLA incorporated correctly.
• Paraphrase, summary and quotation included
• At least five additional sources incorporated (Books, peer-reviewed journals, news articles from reputed sources/Mercer database).
• In-text citations and Works Cited page
• Avoid sentence fragments, run ons and comma splices.
• Consistency and parallelism.
• Writing is recursive, so write, revise, edit and then turn in.
• Meet me for clarification before turning in your paper.