GEE2: Gender and Society

Worldviews on Gender
DR. ROWEL CENTENO
General Education Department
PSU-Urdaneta City Campus
DR. ROWEL CENTENO GEE 2: Gender and Society
General Education Department
PSU-Urdaneta City Campus

What we already discussed…

 Course Orientation  F. Feminism & Gender-Based Coalition

 A. Interpreting Societies  G. National & International Policies
 B. The Birth of Gender-Related Issues Related to Gender
 C. Theories of Gender Development  H. Gender-Related Violence
 D. Worldviews on Gender  I. Resolving Gender-Related Issues
 E. SOGIE: Concepts and Issues  Final Exam
 Midterm Examination

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DR. ROWEL CENTENO GEE 2: Gender and Society
General Education Department
PSU-Urdaneta City Campus

In this lesson, we hope to…

• Recognize the intersectional implications of gender-
related issues on the nature of truth, morality, identity,
and life-purpose based on prevailing and major
worldviews;

• State, establish and share personal views on gender and

gender-related issues while respecting different beliefs.

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DR. ROWEL CENTENO GEE 2: Gender and Society
General Education Department
PSU-Urdaneta City Campus

Nag-recite ka

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General Education Department

RETHINK
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A man is…?
A woman is…?
Why?

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General Education Department
PSU-Urdaneta City Campus

Defining Worldview
A “view of the universe and theory of the cosmos” — G. K. Chesterton
“It is … an interpretative framework … by which one makes sense …
of life and the world.” — Norman Geisler

“View of the world and the resulting way of life within it.”— David Naugle

“Our intuition of the world” [Mundus Sensibilis]. — Immanuel Kant

How human mind in lived experience sought to make sense [Weltanschauung]

of riddle of life. — Wilhelm Dilthey

Worldview is nothing but reifications. Human creations, but ascribed to reality. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no single world, but as many worlds as “worldviewers”. — Michel Foucault

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General Education Department
PSU-Urdaneta City Campus

Worldview Analogy

What a Worldview is What Worldview does

1. Like lenses of Eye Glasses 1. Like a map and compass
2. Like pair of Sunglasses / Shades 2. Like a filter
3. Like contact Lenses

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General Education Department
PSU-Urdaneta City Campus

Our worldview determines the way we see gender and 8

the way we validate the binary or non-binary categories.
DR. ROWEL CENTENO GEE 2: Gender and Society
General Education Department
PSU-Urdaneta City Campus

NOTE: Add “Universalism”

• Truth cannot be proven. • “What is true to me may • There is an objective and

• Nothing can be known. not be true to you.” universal truth.
• Extreme pessimism. • Standards for truth, • Existence of rule, one standard
• Radical skepticism. values and morality or basis / source of truth.
• The life and the greatly differs across • At least some truths or values
universe is meaningless. cultures or societies. in the relevant domain apply to
• No right or wrong, no all times, places or social and
good or bad, etc. cultural frameworks.

How do we view our identity? Are we men and women because of what we feel, or what culture /
society tells us, or what God says who we are? How do you define and delimit what is true? 9
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General Education Department
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Reject or Accept?

Is patriarchy or male
leadership an
inherent evil?
#MenAreTrash
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DR. ROWEL CENTENO GEE 2: Gender and Society
General Education Department
PSU-Urdaneta City Campus

Reject or Accept?

The father is the head

and leader of the
family.
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General Education Department
PSU-Urdaneta City Campus

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General Education Department
PSU-Urdaneta City Campus

Egalitarianism Complementarianism

• Human equality in • Man and woman

social, political, and complement each other.
economic affairs. • Men and women are
Concerns
• Men and women are relationship,
equal in personhood
also equal in worth. worth, and • There is no difference in
• Men and women are roles between worth.
men and
considered equal in role women.
• Men and women have
capabilities. separate, though equal,
roles in marriage, family
life, and elsewhere.

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General Education Department
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REFLECT
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Do you agree with

the statement? Why?

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General Education Department
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General Education Department
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