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WS 240: Week 8 Race, Bodies, and Women and Work
Readings:
 Dark Girls (movie; CTools)
 Greenwood & Cin, “Ethnicity and Body Consciousness” (214-221)
 Bordo, “Reading the Slender Body” (CTools)
 Douglas, “Enlightened Sexism” (283-287)
 Hopkinson, “A Habit of Waste” (CTools)
 Shaw & Lee, “Work Inside and Outside the Home” (470-503)
 Hesse-Biber and Carter, “A Brief History of Working Women” (503-515)
 Ehrenreich, “Maid to Order” (517-522)
 McKelle, “Class is a Feminist Issue” (online link)
Small Group Work
For this exercise, you will analyze Hopkinson’s “A Habit of Waste” using concepts and
theories we have been learning in class (e.g., social construction of the body, disciplinary
body practices, racism, classism, etc.). In forming this analysis, you should make
connections with at least 3 course readings and 2 feminist theories/concepts.
Step 1: Brainstorm
With your group, brainstorm some of themes that emerge from “A Habit of Waste.” For
example, how does “A Habit of Waste” exemplify issues of classism?

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Step 2: Connect to Other Course Materials
How does “A Habit of Waste” connect to some of the other readings for this course? You
can also connect it to material from lecture or discussion.
Step 3: Develop a Thesis Statement
Using some of the themes you identified in Step 1 and/or the connections you made in
Step 2, create a thesis statement for your analysis. Remember, a strong thesis statement is
one that concisely states the focus of your essay and provides a roadmap for readers to
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Step 4: Develop an Outline
Using your thesis statement, come up with an outline for your paper.
Introduction/Thesis Statement:
Body:
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Project Work: Writing an Annotated Bibliography Entry
In your project groups, practice writing annotations.
How to cite journal articles and books1
Journal Articles:
Author(s). “Title of Article.” Title of Journal Volume.Issue (Year): pages. Medium of
publication.
Bagchi, Alaknanda. “Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta
Devi’s Bashai Tudu.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 15.1 (1996): 41-50.
Print.
Duvall, John N. “The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated
Mediation in DeLillo’s White Noise.” Arizona Quarterly 50.3 (1994): 127-53.
Print.
Books:
Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.
Medium of Publication.
Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston:
Allyn, 2000. Print.
Your turn:
Write a partial or complete bibliographic entry for your assigned text. If your entry is
partial, what information would you still need to know in order to complete it?
Write an annotation for your assigned text. This annotation should be a paragraph that
includes: a 1-3 sentence summary of the text, including the text’s main argument, and 2-4
sentences about how this text relates to themes of this week’s class and your assessment
of its usefulness in helping you understand those themes.
1 Examples of bibliographic entries from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/11/