DIVISION OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

College of Arts and Sciences

University of the Philippines Visayas
Miagao, Iloilo

Prof. Cristabel R. F. Parcon

cfparcon@upv.edu.ph
Consultation Hours MTh 2:30-4:30 (DSS Faculty Room, CAS Building)
TF 9:00-12:00 (OCEP, Iloilo City Campus)

SOCIAL SCIENCE 5
Understanding Gender
Critical, inter or trans disciplinary analysis of the concepts, causes, forms and dimensions of gender relations,
as manifested in particular cultures and histories

Course Goals For students to analyze the dynamics of gender relations in the context of
particular cultures and histories, in order to advocate for gender equity and
equality.

Credits 3 units

Course Outcomes Upon completing the course, students must be able to:
1. Discuss the various concepts and perspectives on gender relations;
2. Analyze critically the dynamics and implications of gender relations in
particular cultures and histories;
3. Demonstrate gender awareness and sensitivity; and
4. Advocate for gender equity and equality.

Course Requirements (35%) 2 long exams

(25%) Quizzes/exercises & Individual written output
(15%) Group work/presentations
(25%) Group advocacy projects

Course Outline

Dates Topics Learning Outcomes Essential questions Activities and

materials
Aug 15 Course Overview and For students to get What are your
Introduction into the proper expectations in terms
mindset of a GE of course content,
course on gender methodology, and
from the faculty-in-
charge and from your
classmates?
Aug 19, VARIOUS CONCEPTS AND Differentiate between What are the Lecture-discussions,
22,29 PERSPECTIVES IN sex and gender, sex differences among group work,
UNDERSTANDING GENDER roles and gender sex and gender, storytelling, role
A. Sex and gender roles, patriarchy and sexual orientation, playing, film or
B. Sex role and gender ole matriarchy, as well as gender identity and uploaded video
C. Gender relations hoe these concepts expression; gender viewing
influenced society’s

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University of the Philippines Visayas
Miagao, Iloilo

Dates Topics Learning Outcomes Essential questions Activities and

materials
D. Gender equity and views on women and equity and gender The Genderbread
inequality men. equality? Person
E. Patriarchy and matriarchy
F. Sexuality Discuss the basic Can you identify Bem Sex Inventory
G. Feminisms concepts (gender examples of sex roles
H. Sexual orientation, gender relations, sexuality, and gender roles? The Gender
identify and expression SOGIE) and Revolution with Katie
(SOGIE) perspectives (gender How do these Couric
equity and equality, concepts of patriarchy
feminisms, etc) on or feminisms affect
gender relations and society’s perspectives
relate these with day- of women and men?
to-day experiences or
observations.
Sept 2, 5*, 9, CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL Describe gender How did gender role Lecture-discussions,
12, 16, 19 CONTEXTS OF GENDER relations in eastern expectations evolve in group presentations,
RELATIONS and western cultural selected western and film viewing
A. Eastern versus Western and historical eastern societal
contexts contexts. contexts? GP1: Berdache
B. Philippine experience Tradition
Enumerate various HerStory: where are GP2: Women in
historical and cultural the women in Middle East
causes of gender Philippines history? GP3: Confucian
inequality and Complexities
inequity on the What factors GP4: Gender in early
Philippines context. contributed to the Philippines
Filipino women’s
current societal
status?
Sept 23, 26, GENDER RELATIONS: SEXUAL Discuss the various Who does what in the Lecture-discussions;
30 DIVISION OF LABOR IN ideologies that household and 24-hour activity; The
SELECTED CULTURES AND underpin the workplace settings? impossible dream
HISTORIES production vs.
A. Gender ideologies reproduction and How do we get
B. Production vs. public vs. private socialized into
Reproduction divide characterizing gendered tasks or
C. Public vs. Private the sexual division of responsibilities?
D. Gendered Socialization labor in selected
societies.
FIRST LONG EXAM (Oct 3)
Oct 7*, 10, GENDER RELATIONS: HUMAN Describe the basic How do the Lecture-discussions;
14, 17, 21 SEXUALITY IN SELECTED physiology of the reproductive systems group reports; videos
CULTURES AND HISTORIES reproductive systems of females and males
A. Definition of Human and the sexual develop across their GP5: Gay and Lesbian
Sexuality development across life spans? Relationships
B. Basic Physiology of the the life span. GP6: Bisexual
Reproductive Systems Identities

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College of Arts and Sciences
University of the Philippines Visayas
Miagao, Iloilo

Dates Topics Learning Outcomes Essential questions Activities and

C. Sexual Development across
the life span, including pre-
natal development
D. Diversity of Human Sexual
Behavior
Oct 24, 28, GENDER ISSUES IN SELECTED
31, Nov 4 SOCIETIES
(Disenfranchisement; gender-
based violence; economic
marginalization; multiple
burden; objectification;
stereotyping in mass media;
gendered spaces; body
shaming; reproductive health;
sex trafficking; same-sex
marriage; inclusivity; use of
gender-fair language; other
timely issues, masculinity)
Nov 7*, 11, RESPONSES TO GENDER
14 ISSUES
A. International Agreements
B. Gender-responsive
legislations
C. Social movements
D. Gender and Development
Programs
E. Best GAD Practices in the
Philippines and other
countries
Nov 18, 21, COURSE INTEGRATION AND
25, 28 FINAL EXAMINATION
SECOND LONG EXAM (Nov 28)
Exhibit of Group Output (Dec 2-6)
materials
Discuss human What comprises
sexuality and the human sexuality?
diversity in human
sexual behavior. How diverse is human
sexual behavior?
Identify current What are the come of Lecture-discussions;
diverse challenges the current gender structured debate;
confronting women issues in selected film/video viewing;
and men and societies today? textual and content
selected societies. analysis of materials
What factors from mass media;
Discuss the factors contributed to these writing exercises;
that contribute to the gender-related group presentations
gendered challenges concerns?
in selected societies. GP7: Internet and
Sexuality
GP8: Toxic Masculinity
GP 9: Gendered
Spaces
Identify and discuss What are some of the Lecture-discussions;
selected international current policy and field exposures;
agreements, national soeictal responses to written reflections and
legislations, local gender issues in analyses
policies, social selected countries?
movements and other
efforts that promote What is Gender and
gender equality and Development (GAD)?
equity.
How do we best
mainstream the GAD
approach in
Philippine contexts?
Discuss and Capstone projects/
synthesize the major gender-related
lessons drawn from advocacies;
the course. infographics

References and Resources (click links to access files online):

VARIOUS CONCEPTS AND PERSPECTIVES IN UNDERSTANDING GENDER

Dionisio, E.R. (n.d.). More alike than different: women, men and gender as social construction. Occasional
Paper No. 3. National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
Holmes, M. (2009). Gender and everyday life. NY, USA: Routledge.
Killerman, S. The Genderbread Person

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Miagao, Iloilo

Kimmel, M. S. (2004). The gendered society. NY, USA: Exford University Press.
“The Gender Issue”. National Geographic Magazine, Volume 231, issue No. 1, January 2017
National Geographic (nd). The gender revolution with Katie Couric [video file].
Crawford, J. The surprising neuroscience of gender inequality. TEDxSanDiego [video file]
Mason-Hyde, A. Toilets, bowties, gender and me. TEDxAdelaide. [video file]

CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS OF GENDER RELATIONS

Brewer, C. (1999). Baylan, asog, transvestism, and sodomy: sexuality and the sacred in early colonial
Philippines. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in Asian Context (2).
Gilden, A. (2007). Preserving the seeds of gender fluidity: tribal courts and the berdache tradition. Michigan
Journal of Gender and Law 13(2): 237-272.
Landes, R. (1940). A Cult Matriarchate and Male Homosexuality. The Journal of Abnormal and Social
Psychology.
Chapter 2 Kimmel, M. S. (2004). The gendered society. NY, USA: Exford University Press.
Nashat, G. (2004). Women in the Middle East, 8000 BCE to 1700 CE. In Meade, TA and Winter-Hanks, ME
(eds). A Companion to Gender History (pp 229-248). MA, USA: Blackwell Publishing, Ltd.
Nyitray,V. (2004). Confucian Complexities: China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. In Meade, TA and Winter-
Hanks, ME (eds). A Companion to Gender History (pp 273-284). MA, USA: Blackwell Publishing, Ltd.
Owen, N.G. (2000). Maria Clara and the market: women and change in the 19th century Philippines. UP
Diliman Asian Studies Journal 43(1).
Sanchez, J. (nd). Construction and deconstruction of Maria Clara: history of an imagined care-oriented
model of gender in the Philippines.
Williams, WL (nd). The Berdache Tradition.

GENDER RELATIONS: SEXUAL DIVISION OF LABOR IN SELECTED CULTURES AND HISTORIES

Jackson, C. (1999). Men’s work, masculinities and gender divisions of labour. The Journal od Development
Studies 36(1):89-108
Herdt, G. (2017). Coming of age and coming out ceremonies across cultures. In Kimmel, MS and Aronson, A
(eds). The gendered society reader (pp. 40-54). 6th edition. NY, USA: Oxford University Press
Medved, C.E. and Rawlins, W.K. (2017). At-home fathers and breadwinning mother: variations in
constructing work and family lives. In Kimmel, MS and Aronson, A (eds). The gendered society reader
(pp. 167-185). 6th edition. NY, USA: Oxford University Press
Chapter 4 of Ryle, R. (2011). Questioning gender: a sociological exploration. SAGE Publications.
Watson, R.S. (1986). The named and the nameless: gender and person in Chinese society. American
Ethnologist 13(4): 619-631.
Westbrook, L. and Schilt, K. (2017). Doing gender, determining gender: transgender people, gender panics,
and maintenance of the sex/gender/sexuality system. In Kimmel, MS and Aronson, A (eds). The
gendered society reader (pp. 147-162). 6th edition. NY, USA: Oxford University Press.
The Impossible Dream [videofile].
No Bikini [videofile]

GENDER RELATIONS: HUMAN SEXUALITY IN SELECTED CULTURES AND HISTORIES

Peplau, L.A. (2003). Human Sexuality: how do men and women differ? Current Directions in Psychological
Science. American Psychological Society.
Peplau, L.A., Veniegas, C. and Campbell, S.M. (2004) Gay and lesbian relationships. In Kimmel, M and Plante,
R.F. (eds). Sexualities: identities, behaviors, and society (pp 200-215). New York: Oxford University Press

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Miagao, Iloilo

Rust, P.C. (2004). Too many and not enough: the meanings of bisexual identities. In Kimmel, M and Plante,
R.F. (eds). Sexualities: identities, behaviors, and society (pp 216-229) New York: Oxford University Press
Savin-Williams, R.C. (2004). Dating and romantic relationships among gay, lesbian, and bisexual youths. In
Kimmel, M and Plante, R.F. (eds). Sexualities: identities, behaviors, and society (pp 113-122) New York:
Oxford University Press
Okasaki, S. (2004). Influences of culture on Asian American’s sexuality. In Kimmel, M and Plante, R.F. (eds).
Sexualities: identities, behaviors, and society (pp 159-169). New York: Oxford University Press
Transgender kids [videofile]

GENDER ISSUES IN SELECTED SOCIETIES

Beebeejuan, Y. (2017). Gender, urban space and the right to everyday life. Journal of Urban Affairs 39(3):
323-334.
Chang, Pilwha. (2003). Cyberspace and sexuality. Korea Journal 43(3): 35-60.
Veissiere, S.P.L. (2018). “Toxic Masculinity” in the age of #MeToo: ritual, morality and gender archetypes
across cultures. Society and Business Review. Doi:10.1108/SBR-07-2018-0070.
Chant, S. and Mcilwaine, C. (2013). Gender, urban development and the politics of space.

RESPONSES TO GENDER ISSUES

Hega, M.D., Alporha, V.C. and Evangelista, M.S. (2017). Feminism and Women’s Movement in the Philippines:
struggles, advances, and challenges. Philippines: Friedrich-Ebert_Stiftung.
What stands in the way of women being equal to men? BBC News [video file]
The credibility gap: how sexism shapes human knowledge [video file]

Individual Written Output Guidelines

This course requirement will help the you appreciate the ways gender norms shape the status of men and
women in our society.

You will need to find two (2) symbols or “indicators” of women’s/men’s or other genders’ status in society.
Indicators are all over the place. You can find them in song lyrics, TV show, movies, advertisements, news
articles, clothing, as well as personal experiences, conversations, or something your observed on the streets.

Topic Specific indicators for Due date

Various concepts and perspectives in Gender stereotypes Sept 2
understanding gender
Cultural and historical contexts of gender Gender identities across culture Sept 16
relations
Gender relations: sexual division of labor in Gender socialization Sept 30
selected cultures and histories
Gender relations: human sexuality in selected Ideal bodies or gendered relationships Oct 17
cultures and histories
Gender issues in selected societies Gendered spaces Nov 4
Responses to gender issues Changing gender norms Nov 21

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Write a two- to three-paged essay on your reflections on the indicator, relating it to class discussions. Attach
evidence of the indicator to your essay. Format of the paper is Calibri 11, 1.5 line-spacing, 1-inch margin on
all sides. Cite references if applicable.

Group Presentations

Each group will be given an hour to 1.5 hours to present topics assigned to them. You should be able to: (1)
orient the class of outline of your presentations at the start of the report; (2) provide short warm-up activity
(in form of a game or discussion questions), maximum of 10 minutes; (3) actively involve your classmates in
the discussion; and (4) end with at least 3 take-aways.

You will be graded according your preparedness and creativity (10 points), mastery and delivery of the
topics (15 points), and ability to discuss the topics and involve your classmates (10 points). Total is 35 points.

Topic Assigned Group Date of Presentation

GP1: Berdache Tradition Balase, Batayen, Sanchez, Solas Sept 9
GP2: Women in Middle East Canuto, Cortum, Quimsing, Ng Sept 12
GP3: Confucian Complexities Acepcion, Galinea, Taton, Vicente Sept 16
GP4: Gender in early Philippines Bacula, Dagum, Ende, Guipo , Nayra Sept 19
GP5: Gay and Lesbian Relationships Bachoco, Bautista, Velasco, Villajardo Oct 17
GP6: Bisexual Identities Alvarado, Caaya, Dela Cruz, Lagasca Oct 21
GP7: Internet and Sexuality Garion, Palermo, Pacayra, Suravilla Oct 24
GP8: Toxic Masculinity Bautista, Canonicato, Carreon, Yumang Oct 28
GP 9: Gendered Spaces Apoyon, Ignacio, Miraflor, Moreño Oct 31

Final Group Project

You are required to create an advocacy material regarding a gender issue. For you to have a very good
material, you need to do research on the topic.

Step 1: Concept note. You need to present a concept note on the topic your group has chosen. In your
concept note, you have to provide rationale why you want to do an advocacy material on the topic. (Deadline
Nov 11)

Step 2: Review literature and gather secondary data. You need to do research on the causes and policy
recommendations on the gender issue. (3-4 pages) (Deadline Nov 21)

Step 3: Visualization. Create an infographic (poster) presenting central ideas and “solutions” to the gender
issue you have selected. Have the poster printed in 2x3 feet size for the class exhibit. Submit soft copies of
the poster.
You will be graded based on the soundness of your concept note (10 points), review of literature and existing
data (20 points), and Infographics content and creativity (20 points).

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