regender

Definitions

1. To gender anew (and differently).
   transitive
2. To cause (a person) to be seen to have a (new, different) gender identity or role.
   transitive
3. 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

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, […]”

“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 […]”

“The "small-scale planning" of the brigades replicated at the local or factory level the larger, central strategy to regender jobs, shops, and sectors.”

“And I’m not sure whether the regendering is a democratizing net positive for feminism or whether we should take⟳ offense that women’s intuition translates somewhere along the spectrum of cute while its male counterpart is meant to suggest⟳ the power of a mind⟳ brilliantly deducing.”

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