How is abortion represented on television?

 For essay 2, you will need to choose a specific topic related to feminist issues and research it’s representation in media. Consider some of the issues you may be discussing in other women’s studies courses, such as reproductive rights, the metoo movement and sexual assault, LGBT+ rights, equal pay, etc. For essay 1, you needed to analyze a single piece of popular culture and discuss all of its themes. For this assignment you will do the opposite and choose a single theme and discuss its representation in a variety of artifacts from the same genre. A good essay poses a question and then attempts to answer that question. Consider questions like: How is abortion represented on television? How does LGBT+ culture represent itself through internet memes? How has the video game industry responded to the gamergate controversy? How is the metoo movement related to our recent and upcoming elections? You will need to write a paper in which you present an argument that answers this question by briefly discussing the issue (reproductive rights, metoo, etc) and then providing examples of this issue represented in media for analysis. In my example “How is abortion represented on television?” you might choose several tv shows which have had an episode dealing with the topic of abortion (examples: Bojack Horseman, GLOW, Grey’s Anatomy, Jessica Jones, Scandal, Girls, Maude) and briefly discuss how each example supports your argument. This is a research paper, which means that you will need to provide sources to support your argument. I am requiring you to use at least 4 sources. Because our topic is popular culture it can be difficult to find library sources that are relevant to these topics. It is possible to find them—for example, there is a book in the library about the show Orange is the New Black and another one about Arrested Development—but I am not going to require you to use sources you found in the library. However, that does not mean that just any source is acceptable. Researched information still needs to come from reliable, trustworthy sources. At the bottom of this I am posting a quick video guide to determining which sources of information are credible and reliable. Keep in mind that your researched information needs to come from secondary sources, not primary sources. The artifacts themselves do not count as sources for the purpose of supporting your argument.