Genderology

As long as societies label people “male/female,” “boy”/“man,” “girl”/“woman” and attach some significance to these labels, genderology has a subject matter — a reason for existence.

Around me I noticed piles of manuscripts, stacks of magazines, genderology journals, feminist mags, and women’s self-improvement glossies—Gendereflections, m/f/n, Annals of Applied Gyngnomics, Femme Vitale, Moué, elfin, Executress, and Chrysalis: The Magazine for Women Who Change—all bristling with coded Post-its.

Genderology in the broadest sense examines gender-related issues from the point of view of psychology and sociology.

Verna E. F. Harrison, "Male and Female in Cappadocian Theology" […] is an indepth study of the genderology of Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory of Nyssa.

Subsequently, women's productions, relegated to less-valued categories, tended to entomb women ever more securely into an eighteenth-century "genderology."

It is also important to emphasise that by passing down and around such a conceptualisation of “proper femininity”, the elite “genderology” was reproduced in local contexts, which generated a feedback effect of strengthening the overall androcracy.