Regendered vs Degendered - What's the difference?
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(regender)
To gender anew (and differently).
# To cause (a person) to be seen to have a (new, different) gender identity or role.
#* 1998 , Kath Weston, Render Me, Gender Me (ISBN 0231096437), page 170:
# 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.
#* 1995 , L. H. Parker, L. Rennie, B. Fraser, Gender, Science and Mathematics: Shortening the Shadow (ISBN 0792335821), page 74:
#* 2002 , Wendy Z. Goldman, Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia (ISBN 0521785537), page 144:
#*{{quote-news, 2009, January 21, Ginia Bellafante, For TV’s Newest Crime Fighter, the Lips May Lie, but the Face Tells the Truth, New York Times
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(degender)
(obsolete) To degenerate.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.prologue:
*:And if then those may any worse be red, / They into that ere long will be degendered .
To strip of gender; to make genderless or gender-neutral.
* 2005 , R. W. Connell, Masculinities (page 232)
As verbs the difference between regendered and degendered
is that regendered is past tense of regender while degendered is past tense of degender.regendered
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Verb
(head)regender
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Verb
(en verb)- 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.
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degendered
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Verb
(head)degender
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* degener (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- It follows that a degendering strategy, an attempt to dismantle hegemonic masculinity, is unavoidable