Analyze Gilbert’s authorial stance, voice, and tone throughout Girl on Girl. What role does Gilbert’s personal experience play in her larger arguments? How does her point of view lend itself to her thematic exploration of Media’s Impact on a Woman’s Sense of Self?

Identify three literary devices not mentioned in the guide that Gilbert uses to fuel her discussion of culture and gender throughout the text. How do these devices enact her ideas?

Explore Gilbert’s use of external sources to guide her research and support her arguments. Identify thinkers, writers, or theorists she references and explore their relevance to her assertions. How does Gilbert’s incorporation of these voices authenticate her commentary on Feminism’s Push for Diverse and Authentic Representations of Women?

Analyze Gilbert’s structural choices throughout the text. How and why does chronology function? How would her themes resonate differently if the text took a different form? Cite specific examples from the text to support your argument.

Gilbert incorporates more hopeful, forward-looking ideas into her overarching cultural commentary. Explore the role and effect of her progressive mindset. Does Gilbert offer accessible possibilities for creating change? Why or why not?

Gilbert explores the role early 2000s media played in Manufacturing Women’s Competition for Entertainment Value. What literary techniques does Gilbert use to craft this argument? How do her pop-cultural references render her argument accessible or inviting to the reader? Cite specific examples to support your argument.

Analyze Gilbert’s text through a feminist lens. In what ways does Gilbert satisfy or disrupt the ideals of postfeminism, third-, and fourth-wave feminism? What flaws do you see in Gilbert’s gender analyses, and why? Incorporate external resources to support your argument.

Explore Gilbert’s text within the context of post-#MeToo gender studies, literature, and media. How does Girl on Girl advance the larger socio-cultural discussion of misogynistic and patriarchal power structures? How does the text sit in dialogue with prominent exposés of the #MeToo era, such as She Said by Jodi Cantor and Megan Twohey or Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow?