Category: Social Science
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Women and Feminities
Although women have more freedom to resist the gender binary in some ways, the expectations for men and women are different and unequal. Women have more freedom than men to enjoy masculine and feminine coded parts of life. Even so, doing feminity is relatively compulsory, where women have to assume gender performances that harm them…
Lylyna Heng
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Sexuality
In the previous article, we go over the shift from Puritan views to Victorian-era views of men and women to the current time. Sexual scripts continue to base on beliefs that for men/male-identified individual sex is for orgasm and physical pleasure; and for women/female-identified individual sex is for love and the pleasure that comes with emotional…
Lylyna Heng
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Change: Gender Revolution?
The change of venue The introduction of private property and patriarchy consistently emerge together when societies transition from foraging to settled agrarian societies that cultivate crops. In other words, the revolution from hunting and moving to settle down with grocery stores in the neighborhood. Let’s learn from Hunter-Gatherer to Farmer below. Agrarian societies domesticated crops…
Lylyna Heng
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Outreachy Applicant Experience – The Contribution Phase (Mar 25 – Apr 22)
This week is the wrap-up period for Outreachy applicants’ contribution round before the internship offer from May 23 to August 26. Outreachy is a diversity initiative of Software Freedom Conservancy. Outreachy provides internships in open source and open science to people subject to systematic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technology industry where they are living. The…
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Intersections and Gendered Language
Intersectionality – a term coined by Kimberelé Crenshaw in 1989 – “describes the ways which oppressive institutions (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, classism, etc.) are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another” (taken from Geek Feminism Wiki). More on intersectionality by NCCJ. What is intersectionality? Kimberlé Crenshaw: What is Intersectionality? Intersectionality is…
Lylyna Heng
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Gender Institution
When it comes to judging others, gender comes first or individual comes first, have you noticed it? So what is gender? Gender is a set of ideas and something one does when interacting with other people, but it is also an organizing principle that permeates our social instiutions. Even though we are not always aware…
Lylyna Heng
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Performances – How We Do Gender
“Performances” discussed by Wade and Marx in chapter 4 as the unpacks socialization and explains how we perform the expectations of that socialization. Before we head into that we must first discuss socialization itself. Socialization is the process by which society’s values and norms, including those pertaining to gender, are taught and learned. Gender socialization…
Lylyna Heng
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Gender – Ideas and Ideologies
Haver ever wondered why we have gender in our society? Distinctions – efforts to distinguish one’s group from others that pertains to high heels and more to our focus the word “gender”. Traditionally, gender is about distinction – male, female, and the expectations we as a society assign to it. These expectations are culturally defined…
Lylyna Heng
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A Better Way To Spend This Year Holiday – Practice for Google Competition
2020 has been the worst year for all of us and yet it might be the best time for us to plan for something important in the coming year. It is the best of both world, you can your personal stuff done, while help to curb the spread of Covid-19. If you are into coding…
Lylyna Heng
Scholar Journeys 