SOCI 100 Study Guide - Punjabi Diaspora, Folk Dances Of Punjab, Sikh Diaspora
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Genderism and the bathroom problem: (re)materialising sexed sites, (re)creating sexed bodies. This article is introducing a new term genderism that basically focuses on how women who consider themselves males are mistaken for men in gendered spaces such as washrooms . It questions the male and female binary and proposes a new term of genderism that allows for the opposite ends to fluctuate, allows for movement between the two binaries. It challenges the female and male binaries in the public space and how they are defined. The sample size was chosen through snowball sampling. and the individuals participated in six focus groups, three coupled interviews, 23 individual interviews, It was a very personal method getting lots of qualitative information rather than quantitative information. Further, the encounters of 9 women were analyzed because they either mentioned or spoke in detail of their experiences of being mistaken for men and this experience is termed as genderism in this article.
