You definitely could have gone on longer on this topic. Not to mention, it spawns a few others, like: where did people ever get the idea that there are inherent differences between the genders?

Good lord, yes. I hadn't really even begun to dip my toes into gender studies when I wrote that paper, but at the time it was clear to me nonetheless that what I was trying to get at is a lot larger and more all-encompassing than the texts I was examining. I'm sorta poking at the edges of gender with my undergraduate thesis that I'm working on right now, but, as is usual even for very large papers, after a while you just have to accept that things are gonna get left out... Perhaps the next big project I tackle will be more overtly about binary gendered systems. I find constructions of gender eternally fascinating.

If you haven't read it already, I suspect you'd enjoy reading Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein. I had it assigned for a lesbian and gay literature class this semester, and found it very interesting and, in many ways, enlightening. I had been fumbling around trying to express my dissatisfaction with binary gender, before (like in the paper above), but I didn't really realise what I was doing until after I read Bornstein's book.