Political Autobiography

Essay 3: Dworkin, hooks, Butler, Phelan: Please write your political autobiography where you analyze your own gender identity, analyze how you acquired it, and analyze whether your gender identity allows you to flourish. Analyze how your family influences your gender identity and how you will change your gender identity based on what you have learned from Dworkin, hooks, Butler, and Phelan. (Please read the example of this essay posted in core course materials). *Include as an appendix to this essay a self-evaluation statement where you state what grade you believe you deserve on this paper and why. Please address the following issues: Strengths of your paper; weaknesses of your paper; what you would like help with; why you were able to do the positive things you did; creativity and independent thought; argument; how you were able to refute counterarguments; knowledge of reading material; grade. Example of a thesis statement: The best gender identity consists of A, B, and C. These aspects constitute the best gender identity because it contributes to D and F. books are  Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant (New York: Basic Books, 2002) [ISBN: 0-465-01754-1] hooks, bell, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (New York: Washington Square Press, 2004) [ISBN: 978-0-7434-5608-1] Shane Phelan, “Citizens and Strangers” in Sexual Strangers: Gays, Lesbians, and Dilemmas of Citizenship (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001) (Available on Blackboard) Butler, Judith, “Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality” inUndoing Gender (New York: Routledge, 2004) (Available on Blackboard)