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genderplay

genderplay noun: transgression against traditional gender roles.

Noun

genderplay (uncountable)

  1. Transgression against traditional gender roles.
    • Given the pop star's tendency towards self-aestheticization, I think there is an argument to be made for genderplay and its close interconnection with homosociality as a performative strategy.2009, Stan Hawkins, The British Pop Dandy: Masculinity, Popular Music and Culture, page 85

Origin of genderplay

From gender + play.

Questions about genderplay

What does genderplay mean?
Genderplay means transgression against traditional gender roles.
What part of speech is genderplay?
Genderplay is a noun.

Words near genderplay in the dictionary

  1. genderlike
  2. genderly
  3. genderneutral
  4. genderology
  5. genderphobia
  6. genderplay
  7. genderpunk
  8. genderquake
  9. genderquakes
  10. genderqueer
  11. genderqueered

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