GENDER, SEX, AND SeXUALITY
GENDER, SEX, AND SeXUALITY
GENDER, SEX, AND SeXUALITY
AND
SEXUALITY
Presented By : Catral, Sevillena, Moraga
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learn the definition of Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
Understand The feminist movements
Learn the Theoretical Perspectives on gender
Learn Theoretical perspectives on sex
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For example:
Women were not permitted to vote before 1920, women did
not serve on the U.S. Supreme court until 1981, no Latina
served as a U.S. Senator until 2016, and no openly
transgender person was elected in a state legislature until
2017
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SEX EDUCATION
Homosexuality Asexuality
-attraction to individuals -no attraction to
of the same sex either sex
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SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Alfred Kinsey was among the first
to conceptualize sexuality as a
continuum rather than a strict
dichotomy of gay or straight
.
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THE FEMINIST MOVEMENTS
refers to a series of political campaigns for reforms on a variety of issues that affect women’s quality of life
1848 1851
The first women’s rights convention was Lucy Gage led a state women’s
held in New York and was the location for convention in Ohio where Sojourner
the Declaration of Sentiments, principally Truth was born
authored by Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
connecting the slavery abolition
movement and the women’s rights
movement
1869 1920
The 15th amended was proposed and was The 19th amendment was ratified and
unpopular with suffragists because it the biggest success of the first wave of
left women out feminism (which was limited by its lack
of inclusion of women of color and poor
women)
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SECOND WAVE FEMINISM (1960S-1980S)
•The second phase of feminism drew in women of color and
developing nations seeking sisterhood and solidarity and
demonstrate that race, class, and gender oppression are all
related.
•Second wave feminists were influenced by other social
movements of the 1960s (civil rights, anti-war, environmental,
student, gay rights, and the farm workers movements).
•The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was ratified by Congress in
1972 but failed to become the 23rd Amendment.
•Betty Friedan (1963) wrote The Feminine Mystique in which she
explicitly objected to the mainstream media image of women
and is widely credited with having begun second-wave
feminism.
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•Smith argued that women’s lives were more effectively examined from the
“actualities” of their lived experience in “everyday/everynight” life
•Smith observed that women’s position in modern society is acutely divided by the
experience of dual conscience of household and institutional
•Interactional theory combines critical race theory, gender conflict theory and
Marx’s class theory, a “prism for understanding certain kinds of problems”
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THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER
•Not only do we need to examine at woman’s experience in the
workforce, we should understand how each person’s experience is also
influenced by race/ethnicity, social class, age, etc .(intersectionality)
•Conflict theorists: might look at how the bourgeoisie use the wage gap
to perpetuate an unequal system and how that gap is successful in
keeping the working classes separated with false consciousness