Day 1 · Session 4 of 5
Power & Patriarchy
The Social Construction of Man
If most of what we expect from men and women is not nature but learned — then who taught us? When? And how? A dice game through the life of a man.
Duration
75 min
Phases
5
Session objectives
- 1Reflect on gender expectations are taught at different stages of a man's life — from infancy through elderhood.
- 2Identify which institutions (family, school, religion, peers, media, caste, marriage, work) play the dominant role at each stage.
- 3Recognise that what they accept as natural or inherent was, in fact, taught to them — by specific people, at specific moments, for specific reasons.
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