Rhetorical Analysis Outline

1. Title: Change of "Subject"
2. Thesis: Bauer provides an effective and detailed critical analysis of the woman's role in today's modern society; a confused fluctuation between becoming a "subject" and "object", which the emphasis and power lying centered 
3. Bauer, in her professional yet voiced writing, comes out with several points that open her readers' eyes to the potential dangerous problem that today's women are reacting to their interpreted role. 
1. Self-objected belief women carry 
2. Influence of the media to fulfill their "role"
3. Question of the society that we live in
4. The writer is addressing women, and possibly even men, of modern society, calling them to question themselves and the values we live by.
1. presents multiple questions 
2. satirical attitude 
3. presents readers with questions
4. Calls audience to question themselves and think about transformation
5. social connections about the topic 
5. Nancy Bauer presents a topic to the general public that is extremely relevant to the sexual-infiltration and materialization that our culture has become dependent on. 
1. motivated by observations and characteristics of women today 
2. sex in the media, influence 
3. defines sex in the media as women's form of power 
4. addressing cultural trend with disdain 
5. shows she is modernly in touch, contact with college students 
6. Nancy Bauer's background gives her a solid identity for her readers to align themselves with her angle of vision. 
1. modern day writing
2. personal connections (family, college, etc.) 
3. scholarly 
7. The writer provides a stream of logic, even citing famous philosophers, to explain the mystery that is women's actions 
1. cites studies of philosophers 
2. audience-based claims 
3. uses evidence, questions, and explainations
4. background story, then beliefs get progressively stronger
8. Conclusion- Nancy Bauer creates a strong and subtely persuasive argument, making women question their role to men and society, and produces an effect at the base of her argument, allowing us to question the return to interactions where everyone is a subject, versus an object. This lingering question in her audience is evidence of a successful argument.