READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2009

Please read Jeanette Winterson's The Powerbook and the essay, "Tinysex and Gender Trouble," from Sherry Turkle's Identity in the Age of the Internet (circulated in class via Xerox handout). (If you were absent on Tuesday, get a copy from a classmate, or pick up a copy from my office to read sometime before Tuesday's class.)

Important!! Please turn in an Introduction and Outline to your final paper in class on Tuesday, April 7. Your introduction will need to be 1-2 pages, setting forth the central critical/intellectual/analytical problem or question that you plan to address in your paper. Your introduction may also address how you plan to address this central problem/question within the body of your paper -- either through the research, criticism, or modes of analysis. Your introduction should ultimately move toward a clear statement of your thesis. (I understand that your thesis may ultimately evolve or take on sharper/clearer focus after having written more of the body of your paper and conducted additional research/analysis, etc. but I'd like to see you have a good sense, at this juncture, of what direction you are pointing your paper in -- with the understanding that this may require some additional fine-tuning.) Your introduction should also include an outline/roadmap for the remainder of the paper, and a more expanded/developed bibliography.

P.S. -- Don't forget to blog!