Meaning of genderscape | Babel Free

Definitions

The landscape or variety of gender within a particular context; the attitudes, roles, and beliefs about gender in a culture.

Examples

“During the years of my education and early career, the genderscape of the natural sciences was transformed by a broader inclusion of women.”

“I will now return⟳ to an exploration of how such prescriptive responses to gendered behaviours creates a genderscape in the early years classroom which can limit⟳ the options for both girls and boys.”

“Thus, for example, in the 1990s, the mythopoetic strand of the American men's movement drew on ancient myths in order⟳ to argue⟳ for a natural, pre-ordained gender order⟳, in spite of the fact that these myths derived from a patriarchal, feudal past whose genderscape was no more natural than the present⟳ one.”

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