Observations each week: Russ Category Observations, DVD Website Observations and Work Outs from
You Can't Say That To Me as assigned.

Two Short Pieces:

1) One on a woman that could have been a role model for you if you had ever heard of her (lack of models).
Prepare a 1-2 page introduction of her for someone younger than yourself - for example elementary or high school.

Choose from the following books (available on course reserves):

2) A rewrite of an article changing the point of view to feminine from masculine (nature articles are
especially good for this), sample copy from Women and Language (Never Cry Bull Moose).

Abstracts: Materials to be shared with classmates. First Abstract is one issue of Women and Language.

Papers: Three short papers, each of about 5 pages.

The first paper is on difference: Discover something that women have in a different culture
that you would like to have or that is more empowering than anything you have in your
culture or that places women in an agent role where yours does not. Two examples are in
your Sampler.

The second paper must be on grammatical treatment of person (with principle categories not marked
and description of where in the language sex is marked or not marked) in a non-Indo-European language.

The third paper is your choice.