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Gender and Society

Main Reference: Gender and Society: A Human Ecological Approach


by: Peralta, Atty. Eric Paul, etal. 2019. Rex Bookstore
Course Outline
• Gender and Sexuality as a Social Reality
• Biomedical Perspective in Gender and Sexuality
• Psychosocial Perspective in Gender and Sexuality
• Political-Legal Perspective in Gender and Sexuality
• Some Cross-Cutting Issues in Gender and Sexuality
Gender and Sexuality as a
Subject of Inquiry
• Define gender studies;
• Discuss its historical origins; and
• Explain its importance in society.
Gender Studies
– a field of study concerned about how
reproductive roles are interpreted and negotiated
in the society through gender.
Gender Role or Sex Role
- are “sets of culturally defined behaviors
such as masculinity and feminity”
(Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender 2019).
In a binary system of viewing gender roles, we only
see the male and the female where men are
expected to be masculine (matipuno or matapang)
while women are expected to be feminine
(mahinhin). In gender studies, we are asked to
disrupt and question these kinds of social
expectations, gender roles, and gender norms.
Statement Agree Disagree
Boys should not cry.

Girls are bad drivers while


boys are superb drivers.

Boys should not be allowed


to play dolls.

Women should be prim and


proper. It is ok for men to
be rowdy, they are men
anyway.
Gender studies is not just for women or all
about women, it is about everyone. It explores
how our gender roles have changed throughout
history and how it created inequalities.

Our society have changed so much. Most mothers also have a


job now. Gender studies would ask us to question, “it is it still
right to say that men are the providers of the family?”
Gender roles are socially constructed and are not
something that we are “born with”. Society through a
lifelong process of normalization, encourages or
reprimands behaviors to make a child adapt to these
social expectations.
Lesbians, gay, bisexual, and transgender people often
do not fit in the traditional binary gender roles so they
are often reprimanded, bullied, and discriminated.
They are often subjected to violence and hate just
because they do not fit in what society calls “normal.”
Gender studies lets us analyse the creation and
maintenance of these gender norms so that it does
not create inequalities in our social, political, and
economic spheres.
Would you be willing to befriend someone who…

Is a native of a different country?

Does not have the same religious


belief as you do?

Has a physical or mental


disability?

Does not speak your language?


Research Process
- the systematic
process of identifying
problems, making
hypotheses and
assumptions,
gathering data, and
making conclusions.
Approaches in Research

Research Approach
– the orientation in understanding social realities. This can be
qualitative (interpretive) or quantitative (deductive), or both.
Qualitative Approach – focuses more on the
meanings created and interpretations made by
people about their own personal or vicarious
(observed) experiences.
• Phenomenology – conducting intensive interviews
with individuals who have experienced a particular
event and understanding their “lived experiences”;
• Hermeneutics – understanding the meaning of
texts (literary works, art works,) and what they
convey about human realities; and
• Ethnography and ethnomethodology – immersing
in a community and taking note of their
experiences, beliefs, attitudes, and practices.
Quantitative Approach – focuses more on
characterizing a population (total number of
individual in a group) or a sample ( a sub-group within
the population), and in some cases, making
generalizations about the population based on the
behavior of a sample.
• Survey – collecting information from a sample; and
• Experiment – crating actual setups to observe
behavior of people in an experimental group and
comparing it to the behavior of people in a control
group.
Ethics in Research
– these are considerations in conducting research to
make sure that the well-being of the participants are
ensured, and that the outcome of the study is sound
without undue harm to people involved.
Informed Consent
- researchers should make sure that the participants
in the study are aware of the purpose and processes
of the study they are participating in. They should also
ensure that only those participants who agree (in
writing) will be included, and that they shall not force
any participant to join.
Confidentiality and Anonymity
- Researchers should not reveal any information
provided by the participants, much so, their identity
to anyone who are not concerned with the study. All
data gathered from surveys or interviews should also
be placed in a secure location or filing system.
Non-maleficence and Beneficence
- A study should do no harm (non-
maleficence) to anyone. Especially in
researches involving humans, a study
should be beneficial (beneficence) for it to
be worth implementing.
Distributive Justice
- Any study should not disadvantage a particular
group, especially the marginalized and the
oppressed (poor people, women, LGBTQ+, the
elderly). The benefits of a study should be for all.
In the context of gender and sexuality, a human ecological
approach looks at human sexual lives and experiences at
various levels and spheres of analysis. It sees gender and
sexuality as an organismic and personal l experience.

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