WS 296: Dealing With Difference Analysis
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WS 296: Dealing with Difference Dr. Karla Jay
Midterm
Directions: Write an essay of approximately 600-800 words on two of the following questions. Lengths are suggested. Be sure to support your position with facts, details, and examples. Check your essay structure, grammar, and spelling against the checklist on Blackboard (Writing Tools). Remember to include a good opening paragraph and a conclusion! Please provide citations and a bibliography if you use outside sources. There are writing rubrics on Blackboard under the Writing Tools button.
Your midterm is due March 7 at 11 p.m. (I have provided an extension.) You will lose three points for each day your midterm is late. …show more content…
Remember to label the file as follows:
Yourname.WS269.midterm.
1. How do Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Angelina Weld Grimké let lesbian readers know that they are reading a lesbian story or poem without ever using terms like “lesbian” or “third sex”?
2. Lillian Hellman said The Children’s Hour is not about lesbianism but about a “lie.” Do you agree with her? Why or why not?
3. In The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall took the position that members of the “third sex” are different from birth. Though today, some critics use different terminology and label characters like Stephen “butch,” “mannish” (Esther Newton), or even “transgendered,” do you think that Hall was ahead of her time in suggesting that lesbians are biologically (essentially) different in some way? How is Stephen different from most of the other lesbians in the novel? Even Hall sees two types of lesbian. Though this essay allows for you to be speculative, try to ground your thoughts in some details from the novel, please.
Do only one of the following questions that relate to Beebo
WS 296: Dealing with Difference Dr. Karla Jay
Midterm
Directions: Write an essay of approximately 600-800 words on two of the following questions. Lengths are suggested. Be sure to support your position with facts, details, and examples. Check your essay structure, grammar, and spelling against the checklist on Blackboard (Writing Tools). Remember to include a good opening paragraph and a conclusion! Please provide citations and a bibliography if you use outside sources. There are writing rubrics on Blackboard under the Writing Tools button.
Your midterm is due March 7 at 11 p.m. (I have provided an extension.) You will lose three points for each day your midterm is late. …show more content…
Remember to label the file as follows:
Yourname.WS269.midterm.
1. How do Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Angelina Weld Grimké let lesbian readers know that they are reading a lesbian story or poem without ever using terms like “lesbian” or “third sex”?
2. Lillian Hellman said The Children’s Hour is not about lesbianism but about a “lie.” Do you agree with her? Why or why not?
3. In The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall took the position that members of the “third sex” are different from birth. Though today, some critics use different terminology and label characters like Stephen “butch,” “mannish” (Esther Newton), or even “transgendered,” do you think that Hall was ahead of her time in suggesting that lesbians are biologically (essentially) different in some way? How is Stephen different from most of the other lesbians in the novel? Even Hall sees two types of lesbian. Though this essay allows for you to be speculative, try to ground your thoughts in some details from the novel, please.
Do only one of the following questions that relate to Beebo