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Ge-El1 - U1l3 - Gender and Sexuality As A Subject of Inquiry
Ge-El1 - U1l3 - Gender and Sexuality As A Subject of Inquiry
Ge-El1 - U1l3 - Gender and Sexuality As A Subject of Inquiry
SEXUALITY AS A
SUBJECT OF
INQUIRY
Prepared by: Carla Michaela M.
Hermoso-Ong, LPT
Definition of Terms:
Gender studies emerged from the need to analyze how gender, sex, and sexuality
impact our lives, especially in how it creates gender inequality.
Gender Roles or Sex Roles
These are “sets of culturally defined behaviors such as masculinity and femininity”
according to the Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (2019).
These roles are not fixed such that “culturally defined behaviors” for men and
women may be very different years ago or different for people from other
countries or tribes.
Gender Binary
Defined as a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female. a
concept or belief that there are only two genders and that one's sex or gender.
(Dictionary.com)
In a binary system of viewing gender roles, we only see the male as masculine and
female as feminine -- the norm or accepted standards of how to behave according
to your sex.
However, in gender studies, we are asked to disrupt and question these kinds of
social expectations, gender roles, and gender norms.
Gender Studies should be unbiased...
It is not just about women, it is about everyone.
It explores how our gender roles have changed throughout our history and how it
created inequalities.
Diversity and Inclusion
Gender roles are socially constructed and are not something that we are “born
with”.
Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders are often the ones who are
reprimanded, discriminated, and bullied. They are often subjected to violence and
hate.
Diversity and Inclusion
Gender studies lets us analyze the creation and maintenance of these gender
norms so that it does not create inequalities in our social, political, and economic
spheres.
QUESTION...
Would you be willing to befriend someone who is of a different
country than you?
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has drawn criticism from rights groups after
pardoning a US marine convicted of killing a transgender woman.
The murder case has strained ties between the US and the Philippines, a former
US colony where the Americans retain a significant military presence.
Under the terms of a defence pact between the two countries, the US retained
custody of Pemberton throughout his trial and incarceration, meaning he served
his sentence on a US military base rather than a Philippine prison.
Some view the decision to pardon him as a concession towards the US.
"For as long as the US maintains hegemony over our military, economy, and
politics, there will be no #JusticeForJennifer and for the Filipino LGBTQ+", tweeted
Bahaghari, another Filipino LGBT rights group.
Last week, Mr Roque, who was a lawyer for the Laude family before becoming Mr
Duterte's spokesman, had condemned the court decision to release the US marine
early, saying on Twitter that Laude's death "personifies the death of Philippine
sovereignty". - (BBC News, 2020)
Gender Studies and Research
As a subject of inquiry, Gender Studies utilizes a systematic approach in
identifying problems, making hypotheses and assumptions, gathering data, and
making conclusions. This systematic process is referred to as the research
process.
Approaches in Research
Varieties of issues could be biomedical, psychosocial, or political-legal among
others.
Example:
- Knowing HOW men, women, LBGTQ+ live their lives on a daily basis
- Knowing WHY they live their lives that way
Qualitative Research Methods
● Phenomenology - conducting intensive
interviews with individuals who have
experienced a particular event and
understanding their lived experiences.
Example:
- HOW MANY Filipino adolescents are engaged in a romantic relationship?
- HOW MANY Filipino adolescents still believe in marriage?
- HOW MUCH do Filipino youths spend on contraceptives?
Quantitative Research Methods
● Survey - collecting information from a
sample
● Experiment - creating actual set-ups to
observe behavior of people in an
experimental group (a group receiving
treatment such as training or a new
experience) and comparing it to the
behavior of people in a control group )a
group without any treatment).
Confidentiality Distributive
2.
and anonymity 4. Justice
Researchers should not reveal any Any study should not
information provided by the disadvantage a particular group,
participants, much so, their identity to especially the marginalized and
anyone who are not concerned with the oppressed (e.g. poor people,
the study. All data gathered from LGBTQ, women). The benefits of
surveys or interviews should be a study should be for all.
placed in a secure location or filing
system.
Human Ecology
As a field... Environments..
recognizes the Physical,
interplay among socio-economic,
internal and external cultural
environments environments