Develop a Bibliography of Potential Research: Expect to do library research usin
Develop a Bibliography of Potential Research: Expect to do library research using the GTU Library Online Catalogue to develop an annotated Bibliography of at least twenty scholarly resources (books, journal articles, internet sources) for your thesis/project topic.
Here is the full essay question: How is Cynthia Enloe’s renowned assertion that
Here is the full essay question: How is Cynthia Enloe’s renowned assertion that “gender makes the world go round,” made over two decades ago, still applicable to contemporary examinations and applications of global politics?
Instructions:
Thesis statement:
Cynthia Enloe’s assertion that “Gender makes the world go round” remains crucial in contemporary international politics, revealing the pervasive influence of gender dynamics on global relations, power structures, and policies, and highlighting the transformative potential of feminism in challenging deeply ingrained traditions and norms.
Outline:
1: INTRODUCTION & THE IMPORTANCE OF GENDER IN GLOBAL POLITICS
Introduction:
* Elaborate on Cynthia Enloe’s assertion regarding the role of women in international politics.
* Introduce the thesis statement by emphasizing the enduring relevance of this idea.
The Impact of Gender as a Catalyst and Molder of Alliances and Hostilities:
* Explore how gender shapes individuals’ goals, fears, and motivations.
* Discuss the influence of these factors on international politics, affecting decision-making and the formation of alliances and conflicts.
2: POLITICAL STRUCTURES & GENDER DYNAMICS
The Effect of Gender on Power and Policy Decision Making:
* Examine how gender dynamics impact power structures, laws, and international relations.
* Bring attention to how gender plays a role in making certain societal structures seem unquestionable and in reinforcing hierarchies related to race and class.
The Process of Normalizing Gender:
* Analyze political structures that legitimize gender-based inequalities and institutions.
* Describe how current notions of masculinity and femininity contribute to normalizing such systems.
3: FEMINISM AS A DRIVER OF CHANGE & CONCLUSION
Feminism and Its Impact on Challenging Gender Norms and Inequalities:
* Discuss the role of feminism in challenging and disrupting gender-based norms and hierarchies.
* Highlight how feminism can alter the global power balance.
Conclusion:
* Summarize the key points of the essay, emphasizing Cynthia Enloe’s enduring insights into the importance of gender in global politics.
* Emphasize the transformative potential of feminist perspectives in reshaping global power dynamics.
Note: All the sources for the completions of this essay are in the files section. When referencing a source, please use the author and page number of the following source.
What inspired me to choose this topic was Leymah Gbowee’s book, Mighty Be Our Po
What inspired me to choose this topic was Leymah Gbowee’s book, Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Note: Please do not make up sources and citations.
Instructions from the professor:
Please write a maximum 2000 words paper that is well-argued and well-written. As discussed in class, the paper should focus on a topic that is related to the course and to the continent of Africa or the African Diaspora.
Your paper should show that you understood the themes of the course, and the history, theories, and concepts we discussed in class. However, only discuss parts of the course that are relevant to your paper. Do not include material, analysis, or concepts that are not relevant to yout topic.
The paper should have a title, an introduction which indicates what your topic is about, why you have chosen it, and what argument(s) you are making. The body of your essay should contain a discussion and an analysis of your topic in clear and concise paragraphs. Your essay should have a conclusion that sums up your key ideas.
Introduction:
• Provides a clear statement of the topic, issue, or question.
• Discusses the rationale for choosing the topic, the specific objectives of the paper, and the main thesis or argument(s).
• Reflects a good understanding of the topic and its relevance to the themes, concepts, theories and issues discussed during the Semester.
• Provides concise background information on the topic and country, region, or organization of focus if relevant. If you chose to write a review of a book, you need to provide information on the author, and on the context.
• Defines relevant terms (alternatively, you may define the words and concepts as you use them).
Review of some of the literature written on the topic, especially those discussed in class:
• Reviews relevant literature with the purpose of:
• Identifying some of the written material about the topic.
• Sharing your thoughts about this material.
• Start with literature we have discussed in class. You can use additional references. In total, you need to cite at least five references.
Methodology:
• Your term papers will most probably be based on secondary material (i.e. you will use information available in books, book chapters, journal articles and report prepared by others). However, if you are analyzing a movie, a literary text, or interview material you have collected (i.e. if you are writing about an organization for example, and you interviewed people who work in this organization), then you can also state that you are using primary data.
• Includes a brief reflection on your relationship to the topic (e.g. I chose to write about the role of women in building peace in Somalia because I read Leymah Gbowe’s book Mighty Be our Powers and wanted to find out about women’s roles in peace-building elsewhere in the world).
Theoretical framework:
• You might want to use one or more of the concepts we discussed during the Semester to frame your arguments(e.g. colonialism, decoloniality, intersectionality, Pan African Feminism, Womanism, etc).
Arguments and analysis:
• Reflect an understanding of the relevant concepts, ideas, and issues discussed in the course.
• Are specific to the topic you have chosen to write on.
• Use ‘evidence’ (statistics, examples, etc.) appropriately and effectively to support these arguments if needed.
• Focus on one idea or argument in each paragraph, then move to the next.
The structure of the paper:
• Use a logical structure (chronological, or divided into an introduction, includes subtitles that discuss different aspects of the topic you are writing on, analysis, and conclusion).
• The paper should flow smoothly.
• Good transitional sentences that often develop one idea from the previous one or identify their logical relations.
• Guides the reader through the analysis of the key ideas.
Conclusions:
• Provide a clear and concise summary of the topic and outlines the conclusions.
Style:
•Chooses words for their precise meaning and follows social science writing standards.
• Sentences are clear, short, and well-structured.
• Writing is concise, coherent, and convincing (try to consult the style guides below).
Spelling, punctuation, and grammar:
• The paper should be almost entirely free of spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors.
Themes and Readings discussed in the course:
• Intersectionality in Africa
Readings:
Nada Mustafa Ali et. al. 2022. Gender and Sudan’s 2018/2019 Uprising: Experiences of Self-employed Food and Beverage Sellers in Khartoum and Port Sudan and Farmers in South Kordofan. Economic Research Forum Working Paper, September.
Jacqueline Moodley & Lauren Graham .2015. The Importance of Intersectionality in Disability and Gender Studies, Agenda, 29(2), 24-33.
Audre Lorde. 2003. The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House. Reina Lewis and Sara Mills (eds.) Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Edinburugh University Press.
• Gender, Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Africa
Readings:
Walter Rodney. 1973. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Bogle ‘Ouverture Publications. Read chapter six: Colonialism as a System for Under-developing Africa
• Colonialism, patriarchy, and Women’s Agency
Readings:
Judith Van Allen (1972). “Sitting on a Man”: Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne Des Études Africaines, 6(2), 165-181.
N Mbah (2017). Judith Van Allen, “Sitting on a Man,” and the Foundation of Igbo Women’s Studies. Journal of West African History 3(2), 156-165. Michigan State University Press.
Emily L. Osborn. (2017). Man Sitting with Judith Van Allen. Journal of West African History 3(2), 173-182. Michigan State University Press.
• The politics of Art and Language
Readings:
Ngugi wa Thiong’o. (1986). Decolonising the Mind : The politics of language in African literature. London : Portsmouth, N.H. :J. Currey ; Heinemann. Read Chapter 1: The Language of African Literature.
Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni (2015). Decoloniality as the Future of Africa. History Compass 13(10):485-496 DOI: 10.1111/hic3.12264
• Feminisms in Africa
Readings:
Nada Mustafa Ali. (2016). Feminisms: North Africa” in Nancy Naples et. al. (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexualities Studies. Oxford, UK, Wiley-Blackwell Press.
Amina Mama. (2005). Feminism: Africa and the African Diaspora. In New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. The Gale Group.
G. Turongolo. 2016. Feminism in Egypt: New Alliances, Old Debates. In Origins: Current Debates in Historical Perspective. 9 (11). http://origins.osu.edu/article/feminism-egypt-new-alliances-old-debates
• Militarism & Peace
Readings:
Amina Mama & Margo Okazawa-Rey. 2012. Militarism, conflict and women’s activism in the global era: Challenges and prospects for women in three West African contexts. Feminist Review, (101), 97-123.
Nada Mustafa Ali. 2020. Gender and post-‘Comprehensive Peace Agreement’ Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in South Sudan. In Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond. Edited by Sarah M.H. Nouwen et. al. Oxford University Press/the British Academy.
• Women’s Human Rights
Readings:
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. (2003).
• The Maputo Protocol at 20
Readings:
Equality Now (2023). Twenty Years of the Maputo Protocol: Where are we Now?
The goal of this assignment is to clearly and effectively communicate a depth of
The goal of this assignment is to clearly and effectively communicate a depth of engagement with the course material and an understanding of the central concepts, debates, and controversies that constitute the field of transnational feminisms.
This is an op-ed essay!
These are sources that we used during the semester and it should be used on this paper:
*Kamala Kempadoo (2004) “Trading Sex Across Borders: Interregional and International Migration” in Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race, and Sexual Labor
*K.K. Hoang (2010) “Economies of Emotion, Familiarity, Fantasy, and Desire: Emotional Labor in Ho Chi Minh City’s Sex Industry” in Sexualities
*Amrita Pande (2014) “Embodied Labor and Neo-Eugenics” in Wombs in Labor
*Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz (2013) “Speaking of Solidarity: Transnational Gestational Surrogacy and the Rhetorics of Reproductive (In)Justice” in Frontiers
*Rhacel Salazar Parrenas (2001) Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work, ch 1
Topic: If gender is a social construct, why does it feel so natural to so many o
Topic: If gender is a social construct, why does it feel so natural to so many of us? Please explain using the following authors: West/Zimmerman, Lorber, Connell, Bornstein.
Guidelines:
* Critique: assess the strengths and weaknesses of a certain text or framework
* Compare/contrast: discuss the similarities and differences between two texts or approaches; assess their relative strengths and weaknesses
* Application: use a particular text or framework explain some current event or social problem (e.g., police violence, education inequality, sexual harassment, etc.)
I started off the essay using Lorber’s reading, you can continue writing from there. Provide evidence from each reading, include a few quotes as evidence.
I wrote a paper on SKIMS’s new product, a push-up bra featuring fake built-in ni
I wrote a paper on SKIMS’s new product, a push-up bra featuring fake built-in nipples. in the paper, I am trying to figure out what does it feels absurd when it seems like a positive thing by embracing women’s physical features. I cited from Butler, Mulvey, freud, and marx, to explain why it is so absurd. PLEASSE help me with my logic, grammar, awkward wording. PLEASE make the paper make more sense. My professor is SUPER picky on everything when it comes to writing, HELPPP, XOXO
The Final Connections paper should apply concepts learned through the semester,
The Final Connections paper should apply concepts learned through the semester, especially feminist resistance and analysis of the impact of race, sex, and class on women’s lives.
This course requires you to submit your paper to a plagiarism detection site that will be identified by your instructor. Your submission will be placed in the course grade center in your account which can be accessed by the instructor.
This is a research project based on a project proposal which I have attached. Pl
This is a research project based on a project proposal which I have attached. Please include multiple sources including the ones given in the project proposal and ones that aren’t included. The research paper will need a research question answered with solutions and sources. The professor expects us to do research to write this paper. Make sure proper and relevant quotations are used within the paper. Please feel free to reach out to me and ask any questions.
I have also included a few sources that should be used named
– Peggy Orenstein Source
– Rebecca Solnit, The Longest War
– Rebecca Solnit on the #MeToo Backlash (https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-the-metoo-backlash/)
1. 6 Questions, 2-page Essays per each question—source use is vital.
2. (For fu
1. 6 Questions, 2-page Essays per each question—source use is vital.
2. (For further clarification; you will be writing 6 different essays where each addresses a question and employs the use of provided sources.)
3. The directions are on the file titled “LGBTQ+ Final”.
4. The sources you will be using are on the other two files.