Visit a public space (e.g., a cafe or restaurant, library, shopping mall)
and observe how people perform and express gender: What signs and
behaviours (clothes, gestures / body language, ways of speaking) do
people use as part of their gender performances?
• Reviewing your notes, how many of these traits/behaviours also
describe you? Can you remember how you learned to use them, or an
experience of not conforming to gendered expectations?
A satisfactory Autoethnographic Research Report will:
- Write up by developing an analysis, discussion and formal presentation of your data, documenting what you did and what understandings you gained from it in light of the readings, lecture, and class discussion. These build on the rough notes you prepare for class and turn them into a report of your “findings” that not only describe what you saw/experienced but also interpret them and draw (tentative) conclusions.
- Represent a good-faith effort to carry out the assigned prompt/exercise;
- Use course Concepts, supported by quotations and paraphrases from assigned readings, to perform an analysis of selected artifacts from your notes;
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