this assignment asks that you take a deep dive into a topic that is personally intriguing for you and produce a solid paper on that key aspect of the theme you are interested in studying; I picked “pornography and it’s representation in the early modern period” and i wanted to focus on what their lives looked like along with the cultural treatment it received, in addition to censorship. *(the sources i have provided should help to answer this)
This paper will be thesis-driven and argument-based. What I do not want to see is a report on something like trans lives in the early modern era.
What I *do* want to see is an argument concerning what those lives looked like or how they were lived. Example of a thesis statement for an argument paper like this:
**Though the identity of trans man or trans woman did not exist in the early modern era, there were women and men who lived what we understand as trans lives. Succinctly, women (in the early modern era) who dressed as men and married women were living what we would now understand as trans lives or, living what might be termed, proto-trans identities.** (This is only an example thesis statement, do not use)
some questions to consider and can be used in the essay: WHY was porn so bad? what changed?
what did the evolution of this lead to?
MLA Formatted: double-spaced throughout, in-text citations as well as Works Cited Page, headers, etc.
***Please do not forget in text citations!,
Page length: 5 pages total
Number of sources: at least five sources
Works Cited Page should be on the sixth page
Quotations and summaries: at least one or two direct quotation from each source material required
SOURCES: *there are 4 listed, the 5th is attached by file**
Turi, Z. (2021). “A certaine whorish brauery”: Silenced Women in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Neophilologus, 105(2), 305–322. https://doi-org.proxy-bc.researchport.umd.edu/10.1007/s11061-020-09663-5 (https://doi-org.proxy-bc.researchport.umd.edu/10.1007/s11061-020-09663-5)
Thauvette, C. (2012). Defining Early Modern Pornography: The Case of “Venus and Adonis.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 12(1), 26–48.
Poska, A. M. (2018). The Case for Agentic Gender Norms for Women in Early Modern Europe. Gender & History, 30(2), 354–365. https://doi-org.proxy-bc.researchport.umd.edu/10.1111/1468-0424.12368 (https://doi-org.proxy-bc.researchport.umd.edu/10.1111/1468-0424.12368)
Ferraro, J. M. (2018). Making a Living: T
he Sex Trade in Early Modern Venice. American Historical Review, 123(1), 30–59.
https://doi-org.proxy-bc.researchport.umd.edu/10.1093/ahr/123.1.30 (https://doi-org.proxy-bc.researchport.umd.edu/10.1093/ahr/123.1.30)