 deconstructing natural gender. In the last module, we talked about construction of thought, of views about gender. In this module, we will discuss how this construction changes in next stage of life. In childhood, adults construct our gender. It means that as children, we remain passive. We receive from them what we should think about gender. But research shows that this is not the case. We take active part in construction of our gender when we are teenagers. It is our desire. Desire during teenage. That changes our previous construction. Construction here means views. Thinking about gender. So through our desire, there comes a change. What is that desire? That desire during teenage is that we want to be prominent. We want to be dominant. We want to be authoritative. This is our desire and our speech carries the desire of power. That's why we say our speech carries power. We express this power through our thought. This relation between speech and power. This is called deconstruction. Let's stop for thinking about it so that we may understand it. Actually, these tasks, which we will do during our talk on these topics, they won't be bookish. They won't be based on book information or the information being discussed. I would try to relate these things with our own experience through these tasks because we are all part of this experience of thinking about gender during our childhood, during teenage and beyond. So do you agree that it is not physical gender, rather desire of power that dominates in teenagers? Explain with your own experience because you have experienced it or you are experiencing it. Another task is, do you think our parents, siblings, peers, teachers, they let us follow our desire? Which is more powerful? Culture or desire? And who is culture here? The teachers, the parents. They are agents of culture. So this is the task that would develop your understanding about what is being discussed. Through these tasks, you will know that in construction of gender or views about gender, we don't remain passive. We take active part and that part is played by our desire to be dominant, to be smart, to be prominent, to be powerful.