gendering
- noun
- /ˈdʒɛndərɪŋ/
- The gendering of children's toys often reinforces traditional gender stereotypes.
- gendering of public spaces
- analysis of the gendering
Examples
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With enough repetition of an activity by men or women, the "gendering" of that activity can be changed.
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States promoted the employment of women in the public and private sectors, and the gendering of public and private spaces changed.
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However, he adds that media influence may be more powerful than even lived experience in the gendering of activities.
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First, I examine the gendering of spaces and modes of participation in this regional convention.
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Does the gendering of bodily writing hold true across time and cultures?
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Laurence Michalak commented on the gendering of public space in Tunisia.
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Now, these extreme contrasts depict the gendering of tattoo and tattoo imagery that we've seen emerge alongside its surge in popularity.
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Thanks to hard-won insights, however, feminists are among those best equipped to detect and refuse the practices of othering, gendering, or universalizing.
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Gendering, recall, constructs oppositional and asymmetrical pairings like male-female, subjective-objective, or different-equal.
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Contemporary feminist theorists have noted that the gendering of these two positions of perception has resulted, historically, in the subordination of bodily perception to abstract cognitive apprehension.
Fiction book (1992)
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
gendering = gender (transparent) = gender + ing
Standard nominalization of the verb 'gender' indicating the process of assigning social roles or expectations based on gender.
Etymology
Gendering comes from the word gender, which goes back to the Latin genus meaning 'kind' or 'type'. So in society, gendering is the act of giving people certain roles or behaviors because of their gender.