Write and upload a short essay based on the reading of Industrial Park by Patricia Galvao, addressing the following question:

Are gender roles undergoing a process of transformation or entrenchment in the version of São Paulo, Brazil presented in Patricia Galvão’s Industrial Park? Use examples from the novel showing how gender shapes the urban lives of the book’s characters.

There is no need to cite outside sources. When you make a direct quotation from the text, indicate the page number in parentheses.

Be sure to state your argument or thesis clearly somewhere in the first paragraph. Do not simply choose one side of the question in your thesis: be sure to make a case for why you think this process is happening.