Describe in detail the work and life of your interviewee, contextualizing it in relation to the course readings.

Use the Chicago Style for citations and take care to ensure that the citations are completed properly. Your essay should be 1,000-1250 words in length.

The written assignment is to create a primary source essay that helps to define the role of work in shaping women’s lives and voices in 20th century United States history. Your essay is based on the work completed Workshop on Women and Work as well as a 30-45 minute interview of a working woman that you conduct. To learn more about the process of conducting interviews and of the value of interview-based research in women’s history, please visit the following sites:

SEE ATTACHMEN TFOR PERSON I CHOSE TO INTERVIEW ALONG WITH QUESTIONS AND Workshop on Women and Work THESE SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE ESSAY

Interview as a Method of Qualitative Research
Step by Step Guide to Oral History
Please make sure that the interviewee’s words are fully integrated into your analysis, as well as your own work experiences. The essay should:

Describe in detail the work and life of your interviewee, contextualizing it in relation to the course readings.
Analyze the role of work in defining women’s history in the 20th century decades of 1920-2000.
Reflect on your role in women’s history as a working  woman.
Evaluation Criteria

Please use the Chicago Style for citations and take care to ensure that the citations are completed properly. Your essay should be 1,000-1250 words in length.

This essay will probably include quotes from your interview subject, so use quotation marks to indicate your interviewee’s words. Keep quotations brief–you can summarize the gist of your subject’s words most often.

Example of how to quote your subject:
My daughter Emily, who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, told me that “I always expected that I would have a career and work outside the home and that I would marry and have children. When I was young, I didn’t see any hurdles to being a working mother.”

Within your essay body, you can use a short citation for any references to our textbook, quotes or paraphrases, or to other published sources you consult. Short citation = including the authors’ last name or names if multiple authors, a page number reference, and including these in parentheses.

Example of how to cite a quote from a published source within your essay:
“Consistent with long-running developments, women currently [2010s] constitute nearly half of paid labor and working mothers are now the norm” (Dubois and Dumenil, 690).

At the end of your essay you must include a list of your references [a bibliography] of all sources used in the essay.

Bibliographic entry for a book using the Chicago Style:
Dubois, Ellen Carol and Lynn Dumenil. Through Women’s Eyes: An American History With Documents. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2016.

Bibliographic entry for a personal interview:
Emily Garner. Telephone interview by author, November 10, 2017.

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