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Third Examination
Your examination essays must be sent to my e-mail address
(owenjack@fs.isu.edu) by
4:00 p.m. on Friday, 12 May 1995. The format of the file should either be ASCII
("plain text"; like a regular e-mail message) or WordPerfect 5.1 or below. If
you use WordPerfect 6.0 or some other wordprocessing application, use the option
to save the file in ASCII format. That way, I can read your text in any form I
wish and can return it to you, with my comments, as a simple e-mail message,
which you can then read in any form you wish.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
The abilities to follow instructions and finish on time are parts of this
examination. Be sure to organize your essays. You may use other sources, but
what you write must start from an understanding of the assigned readings. Make
sure to cite the sources of any words, information, and ideas which are not your
own (including those of other students). As necessary, refer to the pages on plagiarism and on citation style for this
course. The course style is required.
Write on *both* of the following:
FIRST ESSAY ASSIGNMENT
In her book Moon, Sun, and Witches, Irene Silverblatt discusses the
major transformations in the lives of Native American women and the indigenous
understandings of gender produced as consequences of the Inca and Castilian
conquests in the central Andes region. You are to write an essay in which you
do the following: 1) tell what these transformations were; 2) using the
theoretical approach of Jeffrey C. Alexander, explain why these changes took
place. Where possible, make use of comparative cases drawn from Sherrin
Marshall's collection Women in Reformation and Counter-Reformation
Europe, Robert Markus' The End of Ancient Christianity, Inga
Clendinnen's Ambivalent Conquests, Barbara Diefendorf's
Beneath the Cross, and your own research for the class project.
[NOTE: When you cite articles from the Marshall book, you must use the
name of an article's author rather than that of the editor. That means that the
article must appear in your bibliography along with the book. To see how
these bibliographic citations are to be done, look carefully at the examples in
the style sheet.]
SECOND ESSAY ASSIGNMENT
The authors of the various articles collected in Women in Reformation and
Counter-Reformation Europe: Private and Public Worlds, edited by Sherrin
Marshall, explore the place of women in the great religious turmoil of the
Reformation era. You are to write an essay, based on these articles, in which
you do the following: 1) indicate the place of women in the ideological and
institutional changes associated with the Protestant (in its various forms) and
Catholic Reformations; 2) using the theoretical approach of Jeffrey C. Alexander,
explain how these changes constrained and shaped women's actions. Where
possible, make use of comparative cases drawn from Irene Silverblatt's
Moon, Sun, and Witches, Robert Markus' The End of Ancient
Christianity, Inga Clendinnen's Ambivalent Conquests, Barbara
Diefendorf's Beneath the Cross, and your own research for the class
project.
[NOTE: When you cite articles from the Marshall book, you must use the
name of an article's author rather than that of the editor. That means that the
article must appear in your bibliography along with the book. To see how
these bibliographic citations are to be done, look carefully at the examples in
the style sheet.]
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