Write 1500-1625 words addressing one or more of the following prompts. These are very open-ended questions, and you do not have to answer every aspect of the question. Nor do you have to restrict yourself to one topic.

Write 1500-1625 words addressing one or more of the following prompts. These are very open-ended questions, and you do not have to answer every aspect of the question. Nor do you have to restrict yourself to one topic.
Address the main text AND the secondary text I provided. If you have any questions or ideas, talk to me!

The Beast: Making a Living on a Dying Planet
How does the text help us think about or question the idea of “Making a Living”?
Where and how are bodies working? How do gender or race or other forms or narratives
complicate or simplify “making a living”?
How does Wilson’s essay, Spring’s essay, or other texts we’ve looked at help us think about The
Beast?
Keep these theses in mind as you read; use these theses to craft your own thesis:
–Bodies are Texts; Bodies are Media; they can be used to write things.
–Different bodies can be used to write different things.
–Gender and race are some of the ways that things are made to appear natural.
–Wilson’s thesis:
The use of women’s images in the Canadian Ethical Oil campaign is one manifestation of a larger
petrosexual discourse that […] trivializes women’s relationship to both oil and the environment.The ongoing cultural narrative defines women as either consumers or as bodies onto
which politics can be projected and performed.
Wilson “Gendering Oil”
Gender:
What does The Beast show us about how gender works in the oil economy? Refer to Wilson’s
essay or any other texts to explain how feminized labour is related to oil advertising, extraction,
etc.

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