Assignment Question
Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Be sure to provide detail and answer all components of each questions. write the minimum required for each question. Be sure to use your own words and when directly quoting do so properly.
1. Discuss the “Sexual Assaults in the Military” excerpt found in American Women, chapter 8. Who is speaking, what is the context, and what is said about what women endure in the military? Why is this testimony important? Explain. 6 sentences minimum.
2. Discuss the chapter 8 source, “Why is “Having It All” Just a Women’s Issue? Discuss the author, the context, the message, and its importance. 6 sentences minimum.
3. Discuss the source, “Black Women’s Lives Matter.” Who is the author, what is the context, what is the message, and why is it significant? Be sure to also address intersectionality in women’s experiences here. 6 sentences minimum.
4. Discuss the source, “The First Jennifer Finney Boylan Said, “I’m Trans.” Who is Jennifer Boylan, what is the context, what is her message, and why is it significant? Explain. 6 sentences minimum.
5. Discuss the #MeToo Movement. When and why did it come about at that particular time? What issue does it bring front and center, and how have women been affected by this issue for hundreds of years in our nation? Connect this issue with specific examples of violences against women in our nation’s past. Explain. 8 sentences minimum.
6. Discuss the year 2020, particularly with effects on women. Be sure to include Trump’s policies on COVID, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the anti-immigrant and anti-Asian hate crimes and scapegoating. Also discuss the November 2020 election of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, and what this meant for women. 8 sentences minimum.
7. Discuss the attacks on the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case decision, and how states and the federal government rescinded much of the protective reproductive rights of women. Provide discussion of state attacks before the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and then provide discussion of Dobbs. What does this mean for women? How is it a violation of our civil liberties as well as arguably an attack on our human rights? Explain. 11 sentences minimum.
