Metagender
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The use of categories to conceive of gender; the possible ways in which gender can manifest itself. countable, uncountable
"The realities of "being or doing" the "differences of being either female, feminine, woman or male, masculine, man" (Coates 1998, 295-296), the socially assigned sequestered private spaces and public roles we encounter in our daily lives, are not to be confounded with metagender. There should, therefore, be concurrent dialogues, one on gender and the other on metagender, particularly in view of the “after gender” issue."
- 2 A gender identification that is neither male nor female. countable, uncountable
"Metagenders can have any body type, genital configuration, or chromosome type."
Example
More examples"The realities of "being or doing" the "differences of being either female, feminine, woman or male, masculine, man" (Coates 1998, 295-296), the socially assigned sequestered private spaces and public roles we encounter in our daily lives, are not to be confounded with metagender. There should, therefore, be concurrent dialogues, one on gender and the other on metagender, particularly in view of the “after gender” issue."
Etymology
From meta- + gender.
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