Gender-critical

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Critically examining the role of gender in a text, a person’s experiences, etc.

    "[…] in order to understand the nature of gender in society and the domination of men in most forms of social life, one needs to take a gender-critical perspective of both men and women and the interrelations between them (Evans, 1988); and, in order to bring about any enduring gender equity, men and women need, separately and collectively, to reach a gender-critical understanding and make the changes to their lives accordingly."

  2. 2
    Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to gender-critical feminism. neologism

    "As a gender critical feminist and an attorney, I have been analyzing the legal and medical conflation of gender with sex for years."

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"[…] in order to understand the nature of gender in society and the domination of men in most forms of social life, one needs to take a gender-critical perspective of both men and women and the interrelations between them (Evans, 1988); and, in order to bring about any enduring gender equity, men and women need, separately and collectively, to reach a gender-critical understanding and make the changes to their lives accordingly."

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