NOTE: The attached document focuses on the topical and thematic requirements. Additional
requirements, guidelines and formatting instructions for the paper are posted in the Paper 2
“Requirements” tab on Blackboard.
ASSIGNMENT: Submit a 1,800-2,000 word research paper on the relationship(s) between
Women,
i
Sexuality
ii
, and Technology.
iii
REQUIRED COMPONENTS: All papers must:
1) provide a clear, succinct, and supportable claim (or argument) that centers explicitly on
a particular technology which plays (or has played) a significant role in the sexual lives of
a specific group of womeniv
2) incorporate and intensively engage with peer-reviewed scholarly literature to support
that claim, showing how that literature informs, expands upon, and/or problematizes
various aspects of that claim
3) provide a compelling and persuasive argument for the significance of your claim. You
MUST justify why your specific claim is worth our consideration. Who are the
stakeholders and what is at stake? This is as the “So What?” question. It is NOT enough
to say it is important simply because no one has really studied it before!
Please read the entirety of the attached document.
Most students find the third component the most challenging to develop. At least one of the
following approaches could be used to develop a justification for the significance of your claim,
including feminist concerns about sexual citizenship, public health, bioethics, social justice,
social inequality resulting from gender bias, gender equity, racial discrimination, poverty, etc.,
and basic human rights related to sexuality, freedom of sexual expression, the right to sexual
pleasure, the right sexual health, the right to have access to information about sexuality, sexual
health, etc., the right to live a life without sexual discrimination, sexual terrorism and assault,
and so on. You could also justify the importance of your claim by incorporating a specific
theoretical debate, conceptual tool, paradigm, or framework, such as feminist theory,
performativity, intersectionality theory, social constructionism, script theory, critical race
theory, hegemony, feminist praxis, conflict theory, cultural materialism, standpoint theory,
structuralism, functionalism, symbolic interactionism, social learning theory, post-colonialism,
game theory, you name it!
BE CAREFUL! Make sure that whatever conceptual tool(s) you make reference to are used to
frame your paper and/or inform argument, not just hurriedly or haphazardly referred to in
order to give the appearance of deep intellectual thought). You should demonstrate that you
are able to articulate not only what it is, but how it helps to inform your claim and/or its
significance. Better yet, throw us a curve ball and use one of these tools to suggest how it they
might complicate your claim, or compel further research.
i
In this document, I am choosing to use the word “woman” as inclusive of anyone who selfidentifies
as a woman or girl, including trans or intersexed women, it does not include
individuals who have been assigned as “females” at birth by a doctor, but self-identify as male
or genderqueer. Womanhood can be defined in many ways, and my use of the term in this way
is intentional and strategic in that I choose to place more importance on gender identity, roles,
and expression than on the medicalized interpretation of certain phenotypes (visible
physiological characteristics, such as genitalia). [STUDENTS, IF YOU WISH, TAKE THE TIME TO
READ MY “NOTES” (provided as a separate document directly below this one on Blackboard)
ABOUT WHY I TOOK THE TIME TO ADD THIS NOTE. I HAVE UPLOADED THOSE COMMENTS AS A
MEMO SO I DON’T DISTRACT YOU FROM THE TASK AT HAND. THE TAKE HOME POINT IS: DO
NOT ASSUME YOUR READER SHARES THE SAME UNDERSTANDING OF SPECIFIC TERMS, OR
WOULD USE THEM IN THE SAME WAY. IF YOU HAVE REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE
DEFINITION OF A TERM IS CONTROVERSIAL, AND THAT THIS CONTROVERSY IS IN SOME WAY
HIGHLY RELEVANT TO YOUR PAPER, INCLUDING A BRIEF FOOTNOTE TO CLARIFY HOW YOU ARE
USING A SPECIFIC TERM IN YOUR PAPER MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN ORIENTING BOTH YOUR
READER, AND YOURSELF, IN TERMS OF WHAT YOU PLAN TO INCLUDE OR EXCLUDE.]
ii
Sexuality can encompass sexual identities, roles, scripts, behaviors, etc. While all sexualities
are gendered in some way, they may also be shaped by a multitude of social characteristics
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