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  1. Madeleine M. Kunin begins with an anecdote about herself and her friends in which she calls attention to her history as a feminist and, hence, her age. What ethos is she establishing with this personal opening?

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    Questions: - Madeleine M. Kunin begins with an anecdote about herself and her friends in which she calls attention to her history as a feminist and, hence, her age. What ethos is she establishing with this personal opening?
  2. What rhetorical strategies is she employing in paragraphs 2–10 when she lists all the things she “expected”?

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    Questions: - What rhetorical strategies is she employing in paragraphs 2–10 when she lists all the things she “expected”?
  3. What concessions does she make to possible counterarguments? How effective is her refutation?

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    Questions: - What concessions does she make to possible counterarguments? How effective is her refutation?
  4. What is Kunin’s principal claim? This is an argument of policy that calls for a change. What is that change?

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    Questions: - What is Kunin’s principal claim? This is an argument of policy that calls for a change. What is that change?
  5. What does she mean when she writes that we “are beginning to understand the individual cost that the schism between work and family exacts. We have not added up the national cost” (par. 14)? Does she support her statement later in that same paragraph that our inability “to invest in families leaves us vulnerable to being reduced to second-rate status in the global economy”?

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    Questions: - What does she mean when she writes that we “are beginning to understand the individual cost that the schism between work and family exacts. We have not added up the national cost” (par. 14)? Does she support her statement later in that same paragraph that our inability “to invest in families leaves us vulnerable to being reduced to second-rate status in the global economy”?
  6. How does she answer her question, “Do feminists have an obligation to complete their mission of gender equality” (par. 17)?

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    Questions: - How does she answer her question, “Do feminists have an obligation to complete their mission of gender equality” (par. 17)?
  7. How effective do you find her analogy that her call to action for policies “that support families” is similar to “the social changes brought about by movements for disability rights and gay and lesbian civil rights” (par. 21)?

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    Questions: - How effective do you find her analogy that her call to action for policies “that support families” is similar to “the social changes brought about by movements for disability rights and gay and lesbian civil rights” (par. 21)?