Regender

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To gender anew (and differently).; To cause (a person) to be seen to have a (new, different) gender identity or role. transitive

    "Even with the most creative attempts to regender themselves, people cannot always extricate themselves from stereotypes. Jenny could spend a lifetime attempting to refute the cultural illogic that leaves her, as an Asian-American woman, […]"

  2. 2
    To gender anew (and differently).; To cause (a thing or subject) to be gendered in a new or different way; to be associated with a new gender or with new genders. transitive

    "It is at moments like this that we can recognise the enormity of the task to redress gender issues in mathematics and science in schools, (i.e., to ‘regender’ them). We have seen that science itself embodies its own deep gender structures […]"

Example

More examples

"Even with the most creative attempts to regender themselves, people cannot always extricate themselves from stereotypes. Jenny could spend a lifetime attempting to refute the cultural illogic that leaves her, as an Asian-American woman, […]"

Etymology

From re- + gender.

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