After reading Women with Mustaches Men Without Beards" Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity by Afsaneh Najmabadi (Ch. 1 Early Qajar ) discuss the fluidity of gender and sexuality before the 19th century. How did notions of beauty, love, and sexuality transform in the early 19th century?

2. In Black Woman Shaping Feminist Theoryhooks critiques the feminist movement and the popular book The Feminine Mystique. Consider hook's critique, what do you find most interesting about this critique? What parts of the critique do you agree with most? Is this critique still relevant today?

3. After listening to or reading Troubling Explanatory Frameworks By Angela Davis, reflect on Davis's discussion about her own emergence in the feminist movement and how crucial intersectionality was to her own identity as a feminist. Do you think basing feminism around an intersectional framework is important? Can feminism be an exclusive issue alone? Why or why not?