Gender Politics in the Recreational Activities Among Undergraduate Students

• Main Authors: Yun-Jie Hsu, 許韵婕
• Other Authors: Ling-Fang Cheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60871007195641105684

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 性別研究所 === 99 === This study focuses on the organization of recreational activities and how the masculinity and femininity of the participants are shaped and represented. I raise two questions: (1) What are the gender politics demonstrated via the recreational activities from begin to the end ? (2) How students in the activities demonstrate masculinity/ femininity? It aims at exploring how the recreational activities have some meanings for the students, as well as, in this process, to find out the changes in gender relations between boys and girls. To choice recreational activities as a research field in which the students can prepare a model of interaction everyone can identify according to their ideas. The activities will reflect the meaning and gender relations of college students. The research adopts in-depth interviews and participant observation, and eleven students are informants, six boys and five girls. In addition, with four informants with more than three times of the organizing recreational activities experiences to provide richer information to achieve saturation of data. In the heterosexual system, the behavior of college students demonstrated in the recreational activities is shaped by gender relations, and identities of masculinity and femininity. Masculinity and femininity are fluid taking different appearance, and we find these contrust qualities appear in the same person and accepted by others. The recreational activities are the fileds for boys and grils "doing" gender in their interaction with each other, it also helps to learn how to get along with others in the community in the future. The research finds that college students hae multiple understanding of recreational activities. It also finds that they explore various meanings of heterosexuality, their self-realised behavior demonstrates many aspects of gender relations among the younger generation..