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This Essay WEIGHT100% of my whole course .I really need this essay to be a really high marks because I fail so hard in my first term this is my chance to pull my grades up so please help me with High marks. If I got a First hon over 70% I will defiantly reorder more from the writer. Thank you very much ??
There will be 21 Essay questions that you could choose.You will only need to work on one essay question. Each essay question I will be uploading some Key reading provided by my professor. Also, I will be uploading a PPT that provide the instruction of how to work on an essay. Here are the essay questions
• To what extent are the differences in the value, experiences and roles of men and women based in nature/biology?
• Using examples, explore how a cross cultural perspective can deepen our understanding of gender.
Key Readings:
*Moore, H. L. (1988), Feminism and Anthropology, Cambridge: Polity. (Chapter 2)
• To what extent are individuals able to perform and construct their own gendered identities?
• With reference to two or more examples, reflect on some of the cross cultural differences in the construction and performance of masculinities or femininities.
Key Readings:
* Connell, R.W. & Messerschmidt. J. 2005. ‘Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept’ in Gender and Society, Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 829-859.
*Lucal, Betsy. 1999. ‘What it means to be gendered me: life on the boundaries of a dichotomous gender system’. In Gender and Society Vol 13: 6.
• Is ‘homosexuality’ a useful analytical concept across cultures?
• Can there be more then two genders? Discuss with examples.
Key Reading:
*Kulick, Don. 1998. Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Ch.5)
*Epple, Carolyn. 1998 ‘Coming to Terms with Navajo “nadleehi”: A Critique of “berdache,” “Gay,” “Alternate Gender,” and “Two-Spirit” In American Ethnologist, Vol. 25, No. 2 (May, 1998), pp. 267-290 (additional optional reading available via sussex electronic library search)
• What role does early education play in the ‘gendering ‘ of children?
• How are children socialised into ‘behaving’ like ‘boys’ and ‘girls’?
Key Reading:
*Martin, Karin.1998. “Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools,” American Sociological Review 63: 494-511, August.
*Sims, C. 2014 ‘Video Game Culture, Contentious Masculinities and Reproducing Racialized Social Class Divisions in Middle School’. Signs 39 (4): 848-857.
• What similarities and differences are there between ‘rites of passage’ across cultures?
• What role do rites of passage/initiation play in the construction of gendered identities?
• How have social changes impacted on the transition into gendered adulthood?
Key Reading:
*Herdt, Gilbert. 1997. “Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea”, in Brettell, Caroline and Carolyn F. Sargent (eds.) Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective. London: Prentice-Hall.
*Stivens, M. 2001. ‘The Hope of the Nation: Moral Panic and the Construction of Teenagerhood in Contemporary Malaysia’, in L. Manderson and P.L. Rice (eds), Coming of age in South and Southeast Asia: youth, courtship and sexuality, Richmond: Curzon.
• Do familial structures always disempower women?
• What can tragic experiences such as divorce or child death tell us about the meaning and practice of motherhood and/or fatherhood?
Key Readings:
Clark, G. 1999 ‘Mothering, Work and Gender in Urban Asante Ideology and Practice. American Anthropologist. 101 (4): 717-729.
*Hodgson, Dorothy, L. 2001 ‘My Daughter…Belongs to the Government Now: Marriage, Maasai, and the Tanzanian State’. In Hodgson, D,L and McCurdy, S,A. (eds) ‘Wicked’ Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa. Oxford: James Currey
• To what extent are women (or men) victims of and/or empowered by the politicisation of their bodies?
• How does the simultaneous imagining of gender and the nation impact on men and women’s lives?
Key Reading:
*Yuval-Davis, N. 1996. ‘Women and the biological reproduction of “the nation”, Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol (19) 1-2.
*Hafez, S. 2014. ‘Bodies that Protest: the Girl in the Blue Bra, Sexuality and State Violence in Revolutionary Egypt’. Signs 40(1): 20-28.
• ‘All world religions oppress women in one form or another’. Do you agree?
• How does religion/belief systems impact on experiences and practices of gender ?
Key Readings:
*Brenner, S. 1996. ‘Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim women and the veil’. American Ethnologist 23(4): 673-97.
*Scheible, J. and F. Fleischmann. 2013. Gendering Islamic Religiosity in the Second Generation: Gender Differences in Religious Practices and the Association with Gender Ideology among Moroccan and Turkish Belgian Muslims. Gender and Society 27(3): 372-395.
• ‘All prostitutes are victims’. Discuss.
• Paying particular emphasis to gender relations and identity, explore the social experience of being a sex worker.
Key Readings
*Doezema, Joe. 1998. ‘Forced to Choose. Beyond the Voluntary .v. Forced prostitution Dichotomy’. In Kempadoo, Kamala and Doezema, Jo. (ed). Global Sex Workers. Rights, resistance and Redefinition. New York: Routledge.
*Brennan, Denise. 2004. ‘Women Work, Men Sponge, and Everyone Gossips: Macho men and Stigmatized/ing Women in a Sex Tourist Town.’ In Anthropological Quarterly. 77(4) (p705-733)
• With reference to examples explore how violence is linked to ideas of masculinity/femininity?
• ‘Men are violent, women are victims’. Discuss.
Key Readings
*Berrington and Honkatukia. 2002 ‘An Evil Monster and a Poor thing: female violence in the media’. In Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime prevention. Vol: 3 (1) Jan.
*Tomsen, Stephen and Mason, Gail 2001 ‘Engendering homophobia: Violence, sexuality and gender conformity’. In Journal of Sociology Vol 37 (3).

Order Description
This Essay WEIGHT100% of my whole course .I really need this essay to be a really high marks because I fail so hard in my first term this is my chance to pull my grades up so please help me with High marks. If I got a First hon over 70% I will defiantly reorder more from the writer. Thank you very much 🙂
There will be 21 Essay questions that you could choose.You will only need to work on one essay question. Each essay question I will be uploading some Key reading provided by my professor. Also, I will be uploading a PPT that provide the instruction of how to work on an essay. Here are the essay questions
• To what extent are the differences in the value, experiences and roles of men and women based in nature/biology?
• Using examples, explore how a cross cultural perspective can deepen our understanding of gender.
Key Readings:
*Moore, H. L. (1988), Feminism and Anthropology, Cambridge: Polity. (Chapter 2)
• To what extent are individuals able to perform and construct their own gendered identities?
• With reference to two or more examples, reflect on some of the cross cultural differences in the construction and performance of masculinities or femininities.
Key Readings:
* Connell, R.W. & Messerschmidt. J. 2005. ‘Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept’ in Gender and Society, Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 829-859.
*Lucal, Betsy. 1999. ‘What it means to be gendered me: life on the boundaries of a dichotomous gender system’. In Gender and Society Vol 13: 6.
• Is ‘homosexuality’ a useful analytical concept across cultures?
• Can there be more then two genders? Discuss with examples.
Key Reading:
*Kulick, Don. 1998. Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Ch.5)
*Epple, Carolyn. 1998 ‘Coming to Terms with Navajo “nadleehi”: A Critique of “berdache,” “Gay,” “Alternate Gender,” and “Two-Spirit” In American Ethnologist, Vol. 25, No. 2 (May, 1998), pp. 267-290 (additional optional reading available via sussex electronic library search)
• What role does early education play in the ‘gendering ‘ of children?
• How are children socialised into ‘behaving’ like ‘boys’ and ‘girls’?
Key Reading:
*Martin, Karin.1998. “Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools,” American Sociological Review 63: 494-511, August.
*Sims, C. 2014 ‘Video Game Culture, Contentious Masculinities and Reproducing Racialized Social Class Divisions in Middle School’. Signs 39 (4): 848-857.
• What similarities and differences are there between ‘rites of passage’ across cultures?
• What role do rites of passage/initiation play in the construction of gendered identities?
• How have social changes impacted on the transition into gendered adulthood?
Key Reading:
*Herdt, Gilbert. 1997. “Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea”, in Brettell, Caroline and Carolyn F. Sargent (eds.) Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective. London: Prentice-Hall.
*Stivens, M. 2001. ‘The Hope of the Nation: Moral Panic and the Construction of Teenagerhood in Contemporary Malaysia’, in L. Manderson and P.L. Rice (eds), Coming of age in South and Southeast Asia: youth, courtship and sexuality, Richmond: Curzon.
• Do familial structures always disempower women?
• What can tragic experiences such as divorce or child death tell us about the meaning and practice of motherhood and/or fatherhood?
Key Readings:
Clark, G. 1999 ‘Mothering, Work and Gender in Urban Asante Ideology and Practice. American Anthropologist. 101 (4): 717-729.
*Hodgson, Dorothy, L. 2001 ‘My Daughter…Belongs to the Government Now: Marriage, Maasai, and the Tanzanian State’. In Hodgson, D,L and McCurdy, S,A. (eds) ‘Wicked’ Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa. Oxford: James Currey
• To what extent are women (or men) victims of and/or empowered by the politicisation of their bodies?
• How does the simultaneous imagining of gender and the nation impact on men and women’s lives?
Key Reading:
*Yuval-Davis, N. 1996. ‘Women and the biological reproduction of “the nation”, Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol (19) 1-2.
*Hafez, S. 2014. ‘Bodies that Protest: the Girl in the Blue Bra, Sexuality and State Violence in Revolutionary Egypt’. Signs 40(1): 20-28.
• ‘All world religions oppress women in one form or another’. Do you agree?
• How does religion/belief systems impact on experiences and practices of gender ?
Key Readings:
*Brenner, S. 1996. ‘Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim women and the veil’. American Ethnologist 23(4): 673-97.
*Scheible, J. and F. Fleischmann. 2013. Gendering Islamic Religiosity in the Second Generation: Gender Differences in Religious Practices and the Association with Gender Ideology among Moroccan and Turkish Belgian Muslims. Gender and Society 27(3): 372-395.
• ‘All prostitutes are victims’. Discuss.
• Paying particular emphasis to gender relations and identity, explore the social experience of being a sex worker.
Key Readings
*Doezema, Joe. 1998. ‘Forced to Choose. Beyond the Voluntary .v. Forced prostitution Dichotomy’. In Kempadoo, Kamala and Doezema, Jo. (ed). Global Sex Workers. Rights, resistance and Redefinition. New York: Routledge.
*Brennan, Denise. 2004. ‘Women Work, Men Sponge, and Everyone Gossips: Macho men and Stigmatized/ing Women in a Sex Tourist Town.’ In Anthropological Quarterly. 77(4) (p705-733)
• With reference to examples explore how violence is linked to ideas of masculinity/femininity?
• ‘Men are violent, women are victims’. Discuss.
Key Readings
*Berrington and Honkatukia. 2002 ‘An Evil Monster and a Poor thing: female violence in the media’. In Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime prevention. Vol: 3 (1) Jan.
*Tomsen, Stephen and Mason, Gail 2001 ‘Engendering homophobia: Violence, sexuality and gender conformity’. In Journal of Sociology Vol 37 (3).