[University Intro to Literature] I'm running out of ideas for my final paper, and I'm running out of time.

Firstly, I originally posted this in r/AskLiteraryStudies, and they recommended that I post here. So here is the full text of the original post:

So, I'm currently working on my final paper for my literature course. I was hoping someone in here could help me find a strong thesis to work with, or even just bounce some ideas. I don't want anyone to do it for me, but just a little help would be greatly appreciated.

So, a bit of information, should someone be willing to help.

Course description taken directly from the syllabus

Course Description: A variable topics course, each of the topics in Global Great Books focuses on one perennial aspect of human experience: travel, love, social justice, crime and punishment, war and peace. Each topic brings together canonical texts from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. This is a General Education course. This semester the topic is dedicated to Sex, Gender and Social Justice, and it explores how writers in different times and places have been creating stories through their experiences of social oppression and inequality, that being: race, sex and gender, sexual orientation and identity.

We read the following texts throughout the course: Genesis

Christine de Pizan - City of Ladies

Veronica Franco - The Honored Courtesan

Gaspara Stampa - Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance (English Translation)

Madame de Lafayette - The Princess of Cleves

Maria de Zayas - The power of love, and slave to her own lover

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - various letters (I have a link, but I don't know if it's appropriate to share that here. I don't believe that it is illegal since the work is now in the public domain)

Arabian Nights- Prologue, Story of the Porter, and Story of the Slave Girl

William Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Both the poem and the autobiography)

The paper is an open topic, and we're also allowed to use external sources. I did my last one as an analysis of the social pressures that are present in The Taming of the Shrew, so I can't do that same topic again unfortunately.

I had a few ideas, and maybe you guys could help me pick one, possibly flesh the idea out a bit, or even help me come up with a different one.

So, my first idea was to do an analysis of how the concepts evolved as time progressed (Since all the works spread out pretty evenly though out time) to the current status of them, but I suspect that I would go over the 10 page limit for the paper if I were to make an effective argument on that just based on the sheer volume of information to cover.

My next idea was to try to draw a connection based on the psyche of some characters in different works that seem to have no likeness to each other (Particularly Sethe from Beloved, and Katherine from The Taming of the Shrew), which I like, but I'm worried about not having enough material to write enough to make the minimum length requirement without adding filler crap.

Another idea that was similar to the first would be to compare some of the roles of women in an older work (like Arabian nights) to one of the more recent ones (like Beloved or Caged Bird), I figured that this would probably give me enough content, but I'm really not that enthusiastic about it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'll happily add links to the pieces if that's allowed, as most of those works are in the public domain.

Also, if this isn't the right place for this, I understand. I just want some ideas because I'm drawing blanks right now.