Women Creating Culture For this assignment, you will identify women’s contributions to the creation of culture in western society through a discussion of three key figures (artists, poets, writers, dancers, performers, composers, etc.) from our required or recommended sources. In your discussion, you will also analyze how western society has shaped these women’s lives and their creativity. Begin by selecting three key figures from different time periods and identify their artistic contributions to culture. You may either consider these elements separately as explained below or weave the ideas together as you discuss each of your key figures. Having selected your three key figures, analyze how their creativity made important contributions to culture in their own era and in some cases, how their contributions reverberated to different disciplines and different eras and time periods, perhaps even being felt today. You should provide detailed illustrations from their creative work (paintings, poetry, performance, methods of dance, music, etc.) to support your discussion on the importance of their contributions. This section must be three to four pages in length. Next, as you examine how society has shaped these women’s lives and creativity, consider some of the following questions. How did prescribed gender roles for women impact their creativity? What images defined women (seductress, mother, virgin, etc.)? Which images and roles were acceptable and which were outside the norm? How did these narrowly-defined gender roles and images (such as the “nature of women”) shape the lives and work of your three key figures? Some women may have outwardly conformed to these expectations while their work challenged the roles/images in subversive and creative ways while others openly rebelled. As you delve deeper into these issues, consider the dynamics of gender and power. Feminist critic Susan Lanser claims that literary texts both “reflect and constitute structures of gender and power” (1989), and it is this idea that you will further explore not only in texts, but in different art forms. For example, how does the subject matter in paintings and texts (or performance) reflect the dynamics of gender and power? Who has privilege? Who has power? How do these creative women sometimes deconstruct (break down) dominant male patterns while reconstructing female experience? As you discuss how society has impacted women’s creativity, remember to consider the significance of race, class, and/or ethnicity of the three key figures. How does the artist’s class, for example, impact both the importance of her contributions and the ways society shaped her life and work? Does her ethnicity or race determine what subjects she writes about or paints or how she performs? Again, provide detailed examples from the artists’ body of work to support your discussion for three to four pages. The Women Creating Culture paper Must be six to eight double-spaced pages in le ...

1. Women Creating Culture
For this assignment, you will identify women’s contributions to
the creation of culture in western society through a discussion
of three key figures (artists, poets, writers, dancers, performers,
composers, etc.) from our required or recommended sources. In
your discussion, you will also analyze how western society has
shaped these women’s lives and their creativity. Begin by
selecting three key figures from different time periods and
identify their artistic contributions to culture. You may either
consider these elements separately as explained below or weave
the ideas together as you discuss each of your key figures.
Having selected your three key figures, analyze how their
creativity made important contributions to culture in their own
era and in some cases, how their contributions reverberated to
different disciplines and different eras and time periods,
perhaps even being felt today. You should provide detailed
illustrations from their creative work (paintings, poetry,
performance, methods of dance, music, etc.) to support your
discussion on the importance of their contributions. This section
must be three to four pages in length.
Next, as you examine how society has shaped these women’s
lives and creativity, consider some of the following questions.
How did prescribed gender roles for women impact their
creativity?
What images defined women (seductress, mother, virgin, etc.)?
Which images and roles were acceptable and which were outside
the norm?
How did these narrowly-defined gender roles and images (such

2. as the “nature of women”) shape the lives and work of your
three key figures?
Some women may have outwardly conformed to these
expectations while their work challenged the roles/images in
subversive and creative ways while others openly rebelled. As
you delve deeper into these issues, consider the dynamics of
gender and power. Feminist critic Susan Lanser claims that
literary texts both “reflect and constitute structures of gender
and power” (1989), and it is this idea that you will further
explore not only in texts, but in different art forms. For
example, how does the subject matter in paintings and texts (or
performance) reflect the dynamics of gender and power? Who
has privilege? Who has power? How do these creative women
sometimes deconstruct (break down) dominant male patterns
while reconstructing female experience?
As you discuss how society has impacted women’s creativity,
remember to consider the significance of race, class, and/or
ethnicity of the three key figures. How does the artist’s class,
for example, impact both the importance of her contributions
and the ways society shaped her life and work? Does her
ethnicity or race determine what subjects she writes about or
paints or how she performs? Again, provide detailed examples
from the artists’ body of work to support your discussion for
three to four pages.
The Women Creating Culture paper
Must be six to eight double-spaced pages in length (not
including title and references pages) and formatted according to
APA style as outlined in the
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Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must use at least five scholarly sources in addition to the course
text.
The
Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources
table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If
you have questions about whether a specific source is
appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor.
Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a
specific source for a particular assignment.
Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted
according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing
Center.