Description
Assignment Instructions
Choose one of the following prompts and answer all questions as thoroughly as possible in a historical essay about three full pages in length. Use our course texts and required readings, and please cite work in Chicago format.
Formatting:
- The Midterm Essay will be at least five full pages in length, double-spaced, using 12-point font.
- Please include the following information either on a cover page or in the top corner of the first page: your name, date the essay is due, the class section, and an indication of which essay option you have chosen. Cover page is not included in the page count.
- No Works Cited or Bibliography page necessary. Use Chicago footnotes and endnotes instead.
- See this video guide to Chicago formatting.
How to submit:
Upload a copy to the Midterm Essay folder by clicking the link in the top-right corner of this assignment instruction page.
An A essay will:
- Be cited in Chicago format.
- Answer the chosen essay prompt fully and completely.
- Include a main thesis, or argument, which the rest of your essay will successfully refer to and strengthen.
- Use detailed and appropriate evidence from the courses required readings.
- Utilize a mix of both primary and secondary source material.
- Include body paragraphs that a) support your thesis, and b) are organized using transition sentences.
- Be at least five full pages in length
- Trace the development of “New Womanhood” and women’s rights from the 1870s through the 1920s, typically labelled “first-wave feminism”. What were the historical arguments for and against women’s suffrage, or right to vote? What role did women play in late-19th and early 20th century progressive reforms? Consider how factors like industrialization, westward migration, imperialism, war, etc. affected women’s political and social ‘liberation’. To what extent was this ‘liberation’ homogenous? What were the goals of some feminists after women’s suffrage was achieved? Confine your answer through the 1920s.
