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1. Use the assigned literature by Jewett, Freeman, and/or Dunbar Nelson and discuss how the writers you choose examine gender as a social construction, role reversal and/or power inequity based on gender privilege, gender “rights,” social conventions associated with the institution of marriage, intersectionality, and/or the cost of a woman rebelling against patriarchal structures/rules, etc. Limit your discussion to only one or two stories.
2. Identify and discuss one or two prevailing themes or symbols in Davis’ Life in the Iron Mills, or Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.
3. Write an essay in which you discuss how Davis and/ or Dunbar-Nelson examines class structures and/or the consequences of viewing an oppressed group as a “problem” rather than interrogating social and political structures and “policy” that reinforces the exploitation/oppression of certain groups (i.e. the poor, women, immigrants)
4. Discuss how Edna in Chopin’s The Awakening resists/rebels against social conformity in an attempt to maintain individual autonomy. Consider the cost of conformity and the obstacles Edna faces in maintaining her autonomy. Also consider how women are defined by the society in which she lives.
5. Discuss how Chopin critiques the Cult of Domesticity through her depiction of two of the three major female characters in the novel (Edna Pontellier, Madame Ratignolle, and Mademoiselle Reisz) in The Awakening.
6. Discuss the role of men in connection with Edna’s awakening in Chopin’s The Awakening.
