Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or making gender-based distinctions.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
gender . - adjective linguistics, of a language Having grammatical
gender . - adjective Pertaining to gender or having attributes due to gender.
- adjective Divided by gender.
- adjective archaic
engendered
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Examples
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She walks us thru how ignoring or being ignorant of trans-issues keeps us focused on the false binary of boy-girl, masculine-feminine and thus keeping all of us in gendered boxes.
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She walks us thru how ignoring or being ignorant of trans-issues keeps us focused on the false binary of boy-girl, masculine-feminine and thus keeping all of us in gendered boxes.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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The father draft exposed a chink in gendered assumptions about wartime obligation.
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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October 6, 2008 at 8: 05 pm thanks for this. being cis-gendered is one of the privileges i constantly have to check on myself. this seems like such a simple solution to a wide-spread issue that i just find it astounding how many people get worked up about it. do you think they ever stop to realize that their home toilets are unisex?
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When one defines oneself as a man, rather than as a person who performs certain gendered behaviors, then any break in those behaviors, any chink in the armor, any deviance out of the norm threatens his whole being.
Blog Against Sexism – Some (disjointed) thoughts on Masculinity & Masochism | Living the Liminal 2007
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Among the changes in gendered behaviors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a growing acceptance of women's participation in athletics and physical culture and a gradual re-thinking of the meanings attached to the female body.
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006
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Nonetheless, it is evident that certain gendered assumptions underwrote many board policies, and the boards had broad powers in terms of hiring, setting teachers 'salaries, and the overall management of schools.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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The only Android phone I’ve seen that strikes me as particularly gendered is the ugly black box Droid, which is also the most highly advertised model of that OS.
Why Are Android Users Mostly Male? » Comics Worth Reading 2010
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I think the ’something’ missing or unsatisfied is deeper than gender roles per se, and that characters just happen to express it in gendered terms out of convenience and incidental overlap b/w feeling ‘emasculation’ and feeling general loss of control over one’s life as a human being.
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Rarely do they recall the gendered dimension of an election involving the first woman in the nation's history to have a shot at the presidency.
Gender Gap Continues: Hillary Wins 73% of West Virginia Women Voters 2008
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