Meaning of regender | Babel Free

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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