Papers #2 (topics—length 3-4 double-spaced pages (900-1200 words), Works Cited, MLA format).

Required Books:

1. Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. e-text link: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3420/pg3420-images.html

2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. “The Declaration of Sentiments” e-text link: http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/senecafalls.asp).

3. Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire. Random House, 2002. ISBN: 978-0-375-76039-6.

4. Marx. The Communist Manifesto ISBN: 978-0717802418

5. Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Vintage,1992. ISBN: 067974195X.

For Paper #2, you have two broad options. The first has a focus of women and the pursuit of happiness and/or equality. The question is what are the most important ideas that the writers explore that would contribute to the happiness and/or equality of women? Select just one or two specific ideas from each author. You can also approach this option by discussing the main obstacle(s) to the happiness and/or equality of women. You may use any two of our readings by Wollstonecraft, Stanton, Pollan, Marx, and Jacobs. Make sure you have a coherent and specific thesis before you start! Quotations are required!

The second option for Paper #2 is to write about two of our authors who have the best basis for understanding what makes people happy in the truest sense, as you understand it. Include in your intro and thesis your own definition of “happiness,” your view of the texts’ ways of defining or understanding “happiness,” and explore how the authors’ ideas could create a better or more enlightened society. For this paper, you have to explore some specific passages in our readings. You may use any two of our readings by Wollstonecraft, Stanton, Pollan, Marx, and Jacobs. As above, make sure your thesis makes sense, and quotations are required!

For example, you could say that Jacobs has the best insight into what actually makes people happy. (She describes, in passing, many of the qualities and characteristics of environments that people need to be happy, including the kind of liberty and excitement and interest people crave in cities) etc. You could also say that Elizabeth Cady Stanton has a different but essential understanding of happiness as she explores the idea of a marriage between equals. So Jacobs thinks more from an environmental social perspective and Stanton works more from an individual socialpolitical perspective, etc. As an alternative organizing principle, you may also use divergent theories about what we are as human beings and what enables us to be happy or content or wise etc. You may compare the divergent ways of knowing, and say which one you think is nearest to the truth. But perhaps this sort of understanding fits well with Jacobs empirical observations of cities as they exist. You could compare these various visions with Marx or Pollan. They all have, directly or indirectly, a theory or view of what human beings really are.

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