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Definition of "gendering" [gendering]

  • Present participle of gender. (verb)
  • The assignment of gender to something or somebody. (noun)

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Use "gendering" in a sentence
  • "Otherwise, the sources are ambivalent in gendering the crusaders, identifying the sex only of individual children, most notably the leaders, who were male. back"
  • "The mis-gendering is more subtle than wrong pronouns in this one (which, it is true occurs so often that I suppose we should be grateful it’s avoided that), but what it * does* do is artificialise her gender, suggest it to be less real than cis genders."
  • "One of the ways that such consumption of cultural forms might indeed change material practice is, I suggest, through the consolidating or overthrow of the affective practice of the subject, by which I here chiefly mean gendering, which is for us not mainly a matter of consciousness, i.e. of ideology but of her feelings."