For Project #1, you will write a screenplay featuring a conversation about social construction and the sex/gender/sexuality system.

February 15, 2024February 15, 2024 Discipline: Gender studies

For Project #1, you will write a screenplay featuring a conversation about social construction and the sex/gender/sexuality system. You will need to create at least two characters who will participate in the conversation. One of those characters must hold essentialist beliefs about sex, race, gender, and sexuality, and another character must take a social constructionist approach to thinking about these identity categories. Your screenplay will imagine a conversation between the characters in which the social constructionist tries to convince the essentialist to change their point of view by giving specific examples of how science and medicine have helped construct dominant ideas about sex, race, gender, and sexuality. Your screenplay should be approximately 500 words, include direct references to
at least 2 assigned texts (readings, films, or podcasts) from the syllabus, and demonstrate your
understanding of:

a) the concepts “essentialism” and “social constructionism”

b) how social constructionism challenges essentialist ways of thinking

c) the role science and medicine play in the invention of the sex/gender/sexuality system 

d) how the construction of gender and sexual norms interconnects with the construction

of racial and ethnic hierarchies. 


  • Try to format your screenplay like a screenplay, but know that it’s okay if you don’t get it
    exactly right.

  • Your screenplay should be at least 500 words (but not longer than 1000 words),
    including scene headings, actions, character names, parentheticals, dialogue, and
    transitions.

  • Your screenplay should feature at least two characters: one who holds essentialist
    beliefs about sex, race, gender, and sexuality; and another who takes a social
    constructionist approach to understanding these identity categories.

  • Your screenplay should include lines of dialogue in which…
    -a character explains or gives examples of an essentialist understanding of sex,

    race, gender, and/or sexuality
    -another character explains social constructionism and how it challenges essentialistunderstandings of sex, race, gender, and sexuality  

  • – the social constructionist character should try to persuade the essentialist character
    to change their perspective by giving specific examples of how science and
    medicine have played a role in inventing racial hierarchies and the
    sex/gender/sexuality system    DOWN BELOW ARE REFERENCES TO USE(look at attached as well):

  • https://migrantsrights.org.uk/2023/07/14/the-gender-binary-is-white-supremacy/ 

  • https://mycourses.stonybrook.edu/content/enforced/1145905-1244-WST-103-30-47671/Kislenko%20-%20Why%20Treatment%20Autism%20Is%20Conversion%20Therapy.pdf?ou=1145905

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