History 281–Handout for Second Essay Assignment Answer one of the questions below in a typed, double-spaced, 3-4 page essay. Be sure to build your answer using evidence (material from the lectures and reading assignments) to support a thesis, or argument, which should be presented at the beginning of the essay. Be careful also to keep careful control over your grammar and choice of language. As with the first essay, you must include a Works Cited (or bibliography) page in addition to the 3-4 page essay. On that page, you must list all the readings you used for this essay, presenting them in either MLA or Chicago Manual of style format. You must also give the source (in a parenthetical citation) for every quotation or example you use from the readings in your essay.As with the first paper, you may not use any outside texts in writing this paper, other than the readings posted on BB. Although you are welcome to share notes and discuss the questions with classmates, you must develop your outline working alone, and write the paper without outside help. 

QUESTION PROMPT:

Analyze the impact that WWI had on European notions of gender, and the subsequent “gender crisis” of the 1920s. Exactly how and why did the World  War I challenge established gender roles? How was gender used during the 1920s to discuss and analyze social changes caused by the war? In what ways were fascist policies vis-à-vis the family during the 1930s a response to this “gender crisis”? The “trick” to this essay is to be detailed and specific about these changes—sweeping generalizations that aren’t supported by examples and quotations would result in a weak essay. Be sure to make extensive use of the readings assigned for the units on WWI and the 1920s.