Length: 4 5 pages. Your paper must have a clear thesis at the end of the introductory paragraph that answers the question/topic you chose to write on. Your essay should deal with the required number of course texts in some detail although you may refer to as many others as you wish. You can also use relevant material that is not on the course. You may not use more than one internet source in writing your paper. Your paper should quote material from the texts you use and be fully documented. If using non-course material, you must give a source. Write on one of the following topics:
1. Discuss the ways that texts we have read up to this point challenge the dominant position of men and the role of women in current Western culture.
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2. De Waals work shows the importance of empathy in primate societies and argues that this ability is inherent in humans. Discuss some examples of empathy you find in course material and in society. Does it occur equally in men and women? If not, why would that be the case?
List of readings
TEXT: Frans de Waal, The Age of Empathy:
Natures Lessons for a Kinder Society, Chap. 4, Someone Elses Shoes (kit)
TEXT: Frans de Waal, Different: Gender Through The Eyes of a Primatologist, pp. 56 60; pp. 298 306; Reference Notes. (kit)
TEXT: Wittgenstein, Zettle, 540 543,
Philosophical Investigations, 244 (kit)
TEXT: Paul Bahn, Ed, Written in Bones, Romito
Dwarf (kit)
In case you cant find the redings online, I can provide you with pictures of the texts