Androgyny vs Postgender - What's the difference?
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Hermaphroditism.
The state of having traits of both male and female genders.
The state of appearing to be neither feminine nor masculine.
(Having moved) beyond gender; not (any longer) gendered.
* 2007 , Helen Boyd, She's not the man I married: my life with a transgender husband , page 192:
* 2010 , Alice Adams, Shameless propositions: women's sexuality and theoretical authority , page 139:
(of a marriage or couple) Which divides household labor equally or in a manner other than according to traditional gender roles.
* 2002 , Adie Nelson, Barrie Robinson, Gender in Canada , page 455:
(rare) A person who is postgender, who is not (any longer) gendered, or who does not (any longer) identify as gendered.
* 2001 , Joseph Slade, Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide , volume 2, page 373:
* 2001 Jan Wickman, Transgender politics: the construction and deconstruction of binary gender in the Finnish transgender community , page 204:
Androgyny is a see also of postgender.
As nouns the difference between androgyny and postgender
is that androgyny is hermaphroditism while postgender is (rare) a person who is postgender, who is not (any longer) gendered, or who does not (any longer) identify as gendered.As an adjective postgender is
(having moved) beyond gender; not (any longer) gendered.androgyny
English
(wikipedia androgyny)Noun
(en-noun)postgender
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Gay and lesbian folks don't have a corner on the market — of course there are straight people who think about gender — but odds were better that our gay and lesbian friends were going to be a little more postgender in their thinking, [...]
- Those who gesture with revolutionary fervor toward a postgender or post-binary or post-male-dominated world cannot, as the old saw has it, get there from here.
- Traditional gender manifests itself among postgender dual-career couples in a common, but not universal, tendency for wives to hold higher standards for household cleanliness.
Synonyms
* posttraditionalAntonyms
* pregenderNoun
(en noun)- Contributors to Posthuman Bodies, edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston, offer futuristic looks at "queers," trans-genders, postgenders , and automated teller machines,
- Similarly, there will be all sorts of individuals among trans-people too: we are not represented by transsexuals only, there are transvestites, transgenders, genderblenders, postgenders etc. in our midst.
