The purpose of this discussion is to
- Engage in substantive interaction with other students.
- Integrate information learned from the Unit 7 class materials into a discussion post on Eva Peron.
To achieve the objective(s)
- Watch the Lecture 7 Videos and take notes.
- Read and take notes on the Unit 7 primary source documents.
- Read and take notes on the excerpt from Personalities and Problems.
The course content will help you compose and prove a thesis for your discussion board post.
See the directions and rubric for more details.
Outcomes and Objectives
Student Learning Outcomes
- Analyze primary and secondary sources and explain how they support a thesis statement.
- Explain relationships between the causes of historical events and their effects.
- Describe a relevant individual involved in a historical event and explain his/her significance in this event.
Objectives
- Explain the characteristics of the "Modern Girl."
- Describe how mass media spread the "Modern Girl" trend around the globe.
- Identify the ways Totalitarian governments impacted the lives of women in their countries.
Instructions
Requirements for your initial post:
- Answer the following prompt: Based on the Unit 7 class materials, was Eva Peron:
- A conformer: Did she choose or was she pressured by others into conforming to accepted gender norms? Why and how did she conform?
- A rebel: Did she choose to reject accepted gender norms? Why and how did she rebel?
- An adapter: Was she not much of a conformer or rebel, but shifted gender roles based on changing societal circumstances? Why and how did she adapt?
- A thesis that is based on ONE of the above classifications (conformer, rebel, adapter).
- A thorough and clear answer to the prompt.
- A response based only on the class materials. If you use other materials, plagiarize, or use AI, you will receive a 0 on the assignment without an opportunity to redo it.
- A thorough and clear answer to the prompt.
- Citations of class materials at the bottom of your post. If you cite a primary source document, you must also cite either the book excerpt or a lecture video to show where you found the specific historical facts in your argument. Use the format explained at 0.6 in Unit 0 in the modules for your citation.
- Analysis of specific historical facts from class materials on the accepted gender roles of Argentinian society in the mid 1900s.
- Analysis of specific historical facts from class materials on the ways Eva Peron accepted, rejected, or adapted to the gender roles of Argentinian society in the mid-1900s.
Unit 7 Primary Source Documents
Introduction:
In 1911, Hiratsuka Raichō, along with some other women, started the literary magazine Bluestocking (Seito), which focused on works that challenged women’s roles as only wife and mother. Due to increasing pressure from conservative elements in society and censorship, the magazine closed in 1916. The first poem was from the first issue of Bluestocking.
Bluestocking:
In the beginning, woman was the sun. an authentic person. Today, she is the moon. Living through others. Reflecting the brilliance of others. . . . And now, Bluestocking, a journal created for the first time with the brains and hands of today’s Japanese women, raises its voice.
New Woman:
The new woman; I am a new woman. I seek, I strive each day to be that truly new woman I want to be. In truth, that eternally new being is the sun. I am the sun. I seek; I strive each day to be the sun I want to be. * * * * * The new woman curses yesterday. . . . The new woman is not satisfied with the life of the kind of woman who is made ignorant, made a slave, made a piece of meat by male selfishness. The new woman seeks to destroy the old morality and laws created for male advantage. . . . The new woman does not merely destroy the old morality and laws constructed out of male selfishness, but day by day attempts to create a new kingdom, where a new religion, a new morality, and new laws are carried out, based on the spiritual values and surpassing brilliance of the sun. Truly, the creation of this new kingdom is the mission of women. . . . The new woman is not simply covetous of power for its own sake. She seeks power to complete her mission, to be able to endure the exertion and agony of learning about and cultivating issues now unknown to her. . . . The new woman today seeks neither beauty nor virtue. She is simply crying out for strength, the strength to create this still unknown kingdom, the strength to fulfill her own hallowed mission.
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