Lesson 2: Gender and Sexuality Across Time

Question 1

the scaredness of the women due to her ability to conceive children (women are treated equally with men)

Answer 1

Divine Feminine

Question 2

men and women have equitable power and roles

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Egalitarian Society

Question 3

role of fatherhood during the Agricultural Era (discovery of this changed how society view women and men)

Answer 3

Paternity

Question 4

the sacredness of the woman due to her ability to conceive children)

Answer 4

divine feminine

Question 5

social system where men primarily holds power in the political and the private spheres

Answer 5

patriarchy

Question 6

Societies have privileged men over other genders in the

Answer 6

productive sphere (world of public world)

Question 7

while women have been revered as they are solely capable only of

Answer 7

reproductive affairs (world of home)

Question 8

Gender disparity intensified during i

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industrial era (men are preferred than women)

Question 9

is one of the invisible layers of oppression in our society – a system based on the control and oppression of women wherein they are perceived to be the weaker sex.

Answer 9

patriarchy

Question 10

GREEK word “PATRIAKHES”

Answer 10

the rule of the father

Question 11

What is the expectation of the patriarchal society

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men rules and women obey

Question 12

only men can inherit property and the family name.

Answer 12

Patrilineal Society

Question 13

viewed women as inferior and whose job was to obey their husbands, bear children, take care of household, and forbidden to study (Plato, Aristotle etc.)

Answer 13

Greek

Question 14

women in Egypt enjoyed higher social status however, later influenced by Greek during the conquests of Alexander the Great

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Egypt

Question 15

women should obey their father, when married she is to obey her husband, and when widowed she is to obey her son

Answer 15

China

Question 16

Three obedience’s and four virtues and Precepts of women

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Confucianism

Question 17

prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination based on
sex

Answer 17

Sexism

Question 18

men earn more than women

Answer 18

Gender pay gap

Question 19

Women Empowerment: Famous Figures

Answer 19

1. Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex)
2. Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique)
3. Kate Miller (Sexual Politics)
4. Garmaine Greer (The Female Eunuch)

Question 20

• Sought the right of education, work, and vote in 1940’s
• Won women’s right to decide on their own bodies and their
sexualities

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Le Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes or women’s liberation movement was formed in Europe

Question 21

right to vote; debunking that women are “irrational and temperamental”

Answer 21

women suffrage

Question 22

woman should be in control of her body (i.e., contraception, abortion, and other reproductive options available)

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reproductive rights

Question 23

such as marital rape and physical abuse are often dismissed by society as part of a “marriage” (away mag-asawa)

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Domestic violence

Question 24

The Center of Women’s Resources in the Philippines estimates that one woman or child is raped every hourmostlybysomeonetheyknow.

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sexual harassment and sexual violence

Question 25

What are the Feminism movement: Salient Points of Demands

Answer 25

1. Women suffrage
2. Equality in politics and society: to represent the voice of women
3. Reproductive Rights
4. Domestic violence
5. Sexual harassment and sexual violence
6. Other rights include the right to divorce their husbands, the right to make decisions on her pregnancy, equitable wages, and equal employment opportunity.