anthropology writing essay -01

Writing requirement:

Various articles this week have posited that gender is a cultural construction. This week’s discussion will be divided into three parts. First, in one paragraph need to state your agreement or disagreement with gender as a cultural construction different than biological sex. In the following paragraph you should describe how gender is or isn’t constructed or performed. This paragraph must be supported using two readings. In the next paragraph you need to describe how masculine norms are upheld through the ideal of science. You must also use two readings for this paragraph. You need to cite the readings according to your discipline including the last name of the author and page number of the edited volume we are reading. For example, (Counihan, 183). Finish with a short concluding statement.

In summary, please construct three paragraphs. The first on your agreement or disagreement over gender as a cultural construct separate from biology. No readings have to be cited here. Next you need to describe using two readings how gender is constructed (or isn’t if you decided that gender isn’t a cultural construct). The next paragraph should describe how science and constructions of masculinity are related using citations from two readings. The final paragraph can be short but should include a statement of your argument and supporting evidence.

Here is all this week’s reading. No outside resources needed!!!! only use the resources that I provided.

“The Overcooked and Underdone” –T.J.M.
Holden. FCR 119-137.“Domestic Divo?”

–Rebecca Swenson. FCR 137-153.“Japanese
Mothers and Obentos”

–Anne Allison. FCR 154-172.

“Mexicanas’ Food Voice and
Differential Consciousness” –

Carole Counihan. FCR 173-186.

“Feeding Hard
Bodies”

–Fabio Parasecoli. FCR 284-298.

“Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary
Food Consumption”

–Roland Barthes. FCR 23-30.“Distinction: A Social Critique of
the Judgmentof Taste”

–Pierre Bourdieu. FCR 31-39.“On the Move for Food”

–Deborah Barndt. FCR 472-484. “The Political Economy of Obesity”

–Alice Julier.
FCR. 546-563.“Want Amid Plenty” –

Janet Poppendieck. FCR 563-571.