• Find a cultural artifact about gender. “Cultural artifact” is an extremely loose category containing items such as a book, a poem, a song, a music video, a painting, a short story, a movie, a sitcom, etc.

• Find a cultural artifact about gender. “Cultural artifact” is an extremely loose category containing items such as a book, a poem, a song, a music video, a painting, a short story, a movie, a sitcom, etc.
• Write a paper analyze gender in a cultural artifact. “Gender” as a category of analysis will only be a starting point: think through the themes (gender and representations of madness, gender and the environment, gender and the workplace, gender and disability, gender and politics, access to healthcare, reproductive justice... whatever) and work on being as specific as possible.
• In addition to the cultural artifact (which is a primary resource, i.e., the thing you are analyzing), you need 1-2 theoretical resources. A theoretical resource provides a clearly articulable framework for understanding something else. 
• Your paper will have a clearly articulable and well-supported thesis. “X is feminist [or] not feminist” is not a good thesis. “X is interesting from a gender analysis perspective” is a starting point for research, not a thesis. “X shows this, this, and this about how our culture sees gendered disability” is a better thesis, depending of course, on what occupies those blanks. 
• You need a minimum of one theoretical source in addition to the thing you’re analyzing. I care more about the thinking you are doing as you analyze your cultural artifact than your citations, so while you should absolutely build on the thinking of others, make sure to foreground your own thoughts.
• No block quotes, no more than half a page total of summary or description, no extraneous information about the cultural artifact included. word count should be listed at the end of the document, before any appendices in square brackets. e.g. [1250 words].