Develop a focused cultural analysis of the artifacts selected based on one of the following five topics:
1. How does gender and economic or social class inform the construction or creation of visual or written artifacts from a specific historical period?
2. How does gender and ethnicity, “race,” or national origin inform the construction or creation of visual or written artifacts from a specific historical period?
3. How are attitudes and approaches to gender expressed or represented differently in specific historical or cultural artifacts across the generations? (Please select artifacts that are at least 35 years apart.)
4. How are attitudes and approaches to gender represented differently in artifacts from diverse geographic regions within the United States (e.g. North-South; East Coast-Western territories; urban-rural)?
5. How have certain male historical figures – as evidenced by specific artifacts – contributed to and/or productively informed women’s rights movements in the United States and what does this reveal about the construction of gender in our culture?
