topic: What do our texts convey or imply about gender and/or women and their roles or positions within modernity? How do writers depict gender or aspects of women’s lives and/or argue for different or other views of and treatments of women in society and culture? What do the texts tell us (either implicitly or explicitly) about how modernity was experienced differently by women and men? Texts could include works by: Shakespeare, Swift, De Gouges, Wollstonecraft, De Duras (and/or others if you can argue for their relevance on this topic).

***If possible, cite Shakesphere and one of the others and make sure that the thesis needs to state a claim about both authors’ works, not about the two works separately. • Remember that your argument is about the authors’ ideas, so keep focused on what the authors say

Logistics: 3 Pages, typed, double-spaced, one-inch margins all around. MLA format, with in-text citations for all quotations or paraphrases, and a Works Cited List on an additional page at the end (does not count in the page count). Number your pages, and title your paper with a meaningful title about your idea Illustrate your key points with details and quotes, and keep quotations brief, so that you can actually explain the specifics of the quotation. Always introduce your quotation clearly; quote it; and explain it (the “sandwich rule”).

Note: Your thesis needs to state a claim about both authors’ works, not about the two works separately. • Remember that your argument is about the authors’ ideas, so keep focused on what the authors say, not just on what characters say (for instance, if discussing Shakespeare’s The Tempest, you will discuss what Caliban or Prospero (etc.) say, but also what you think Shakespeare is showing through and about those characters).