Wendy Kolmar and Frances Bartkowski, eds. When the week's reading is a book, select two chapters from the book to abstract. No abstract is required for Written on the Body.
Abstracts are due when the readings are discussed in class.
Your assignment as the presenter is to provide context, background, definitions and a brief bibliography for the writer of the essay. Does the essay, for example, define 'women,' 'gender' or 'sex' differently than another text we are reading for that day or than previous texts we have read. Many are available in an excerpted form in the reader. A 250-word proposal for your project and five annotations of key sources. The purpose of this paper is to practice, on a small scale, the approach that you will use in your longer essay.