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    Activity 3 Interdisciplinary Approach of Gender Studies

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    The document discusses key learnings from a lesson on the interdisciplinary approach of gender studies. Specifically: 1) Gender studies incorporates the study of masculinity and emphasizes transforming traditional stereotypes. It recognizes that gender impacts both women and men. 2) Challenging dominant forms of masculinity questions power structures across social, economic, cultural and political systems. 3) One can apply gender awareness in everyday life to better understand children's development and support their learning, identity exploration, well-being and social relationships.

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    The document discusses key learnings from a lesson on the interdisciplinary approach of gender studies. Specifically: 1) Gender studies incorporates the study of masculinity and emphasizes transforming traditional stereotypes. It recognizes that gender impacts both women and men. 2) Challenging dominant forms of masculinity questions power structures across social, economic, cultural and political systems. 3) One can apply gender awareness in everyday life to better understand children's development and support their learning, identity exploration, well-being and social relationships.

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    The document discusses key learnings from a lesson on the interdisciplinary approach of gender studies. Specifically: 1) Gender studies incorporates the study of masculinity and emphasizes transforming traditional stereotypes. It recognizes that gender impacts both women and men. 2) Challenging dominant forms of masculinity questions power structures across social, economic, cultural and political systems. 3) One can apply gender awareness in everyday life to better understand children's development and support their learning, identity exploration, well-being and social relationships.

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    Activity #3:

    Based on the discussion of Lesson 3 – The Interdisciplinary Approach of Gender


    Studies, what are your learnings? Is there anything in the lesson that you could apply or
    use in your everyday life?

    IMPORTANT- Non-submission means lost opportunity for a grade in


    Participation/Recitation.

    Topic The Interdisciplinary Approach of Gender Studies

    Gender is both an empirical category and a theoretical


    conceptualization that aids in the understanding and
    description of social relations and divisions. Gender studies,
    Learnings according to Connell, have incorporated studies of
    masculinity, and interdisciplinary approaches, according to
    Hooks, have emphasized the possibilities of transformation
    of traditional stereotypical masculinities. Gender is not just
    about women, as has frequently been the case in the
    promotion of equal-opportunities policies in neoliberal
    democracies in recent years. Men are gendered as well, and
    the questioning of hegemonic masculinity challenges power
    structures in a wide range of social, economic, cultural, and
    political systems where traditional, seemingly gender neutral
    norms are called into question. However, challenges to an
    essentialized category of 'woman' have resulted in the
    marginalization, and even absence, of some structural
    oppression critiques, such as patriarchy, which was a key
    concept in second-wave feminist critiques of the operation of
    power at all levels. Many of the tensions and contradictions
    of gender studies are those of interdisciplinary studies, at a
    time when there is also a push to reintroduce single
    disciplines in the field of higher education, which is suffering
    from financial constraints and limited resources. Gender
    studies offer productive opportunities for knowledge
    contributions that are distinctively interdisciplinary and go far
    beyond attempts to mainstream gender into traditional
    disciplinary structures.
    Gender is vital because sex, love, care, and reproduction
    are fundamental aspects of life; however, the meaning of
    gender is contested. Gender studies provides politically
    Lesson that can be significant empirical knowledge about gendered practices,
    used in everyday life norms, and discourses. To be open to girls' and boys'
    learning and development choices, gender awareness helps
    us explore who they are and make connections to people
    around them, as well as gain self-confidence, well-being,
    peer acceptance, and social support.

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