Woman as consumer & victim in WWI

This week in Gender Roles in Wartime and Peacetime, we discussed the effects of World War I on the home front. Let’s extend our discussion in the blogosphere.
Below are several discussion questions students in the class submitted for this week’s readings. Post your comments to one or more below.

According to Davis’s article, does the WWI [...]

Gender: Essential or constructed?

Our discussion in Feminist Theory class this week revolved around whether gender is essential (biological), socially constructed, or a combination of the two.
Since we obviously can’t do justice to this subject in one class session, I am posting a few of your discussion questions to our blog so we can extend our conversation in cyberspace.
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