genderology

Noun

genderology (uncountable)

1. The study of gender, gender roles, or gender relations.
   • As long as societies label people “male/female,” “boy”/“man,” “girl”/“woman” and attach some significance to these labels, genderology has a subject matter — a reason for existence.1996, Clinton J. Jesser, Fierce and Tender Men: Sociological Aspects of the Men's Movement, page 6
   • Around me I noticed piles of manuscripts, stacks of magazines, genderology journals, feminist mags, and women’s self-improvement glossies—Gendereflections, m/f/n, Annals of Applied Gyngnomics, Femme Vitale, Moué, elfin, Executress, and Chrysalis: The Magazine for Women Who Change—all bristling with...2012, Tom Vorlen, The Healer of Our Time: A Novel of Medicine, page 334

   Synonyms:

   gender studies

2. The conceptualization of gender in a particular cultural or temporal context.
   • Verna E. F. Harrison, "Male and Female in Cappadocian Theology" […] is an indepth study of the genderology of Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory of Nyssa.1990, ADRIS Newsletter, volumes 20-21, page 14
   • Subsequently, women's productions, relegated to less-valued categories, tended to entomb women ever more securely into an eighteenth-century "genderology."1994, Barbara Kosta, Recasting Autobiography: Women's Counterfictions in Contemporary German Literature, page 11

   Synonyms:

   genderscape