Lonely in Your Firm Grip

Essay paper instructions:

• Introduction
• 3-4 body paragraphs
• Conclusion

• The essay is based on the three common readings below:

1. Deniz Kandiyoti, “Bargaining with Patriarchy” in Gender and Society. Vol. 2, No. 3, 1988, pp. 274 – 290
2. Amalia Sa’ar, “Lonely in Your Firm Grip: Women in Israeli-Palestinian Families” in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Vol.7, No. 4, 2001, pp. 723 – 739
3. Uma Narayan, “Westernization” Respect for Cultures and Third-world Feminists.

• Grading criteria:

1. How well do you answer the main questions?
2. 2. How well do you synthesize information from these three articles? (for example: Do you point out similarities and/or differences

between the authors’ main arguments? Are you able to summarize shared views? Are you able to use ethnographic data from different sources to provide evidence for an argument? Do you highlight additional insights by one author that the others might not have included in their texts?)

3. How well is your paper organized? Does it have introduction, main body and conclusion? Is there a logical structure to your essay, a certain “flow” that makes it easy to understand your arguments?
4. Language usage and correctness.