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hypergender

hypergender adjective: relating to or exhibiting strict adherence to one's traditional gender role or gender stereotypes.

Adjective

hypergender (comparative more hypergender, superlative most hypergender)

  1. Relating to or exhibiting strict adherence to one's traditional gender role or gender stereotypes.
    • Given the research results indicating that hypermasculine men and hyperfeminine women appear to share similar attitudes and the overlap in content of several of the HMI and HFS items, it is plausible that acceptance of hypergender ideologies (i.e., hypertraditionality, Byrne & Schulte, 1990; Smith...1996 June, Merle E. Hamburger, Matthew Hogben, Stephanie McGowan, Lori J. Dawson, “Assessing Hypergender Ideologies: Development and Initial Validation of a Gender-Neutral Measure of Adherence to...
    • Other attitudes and beliefs included belief in rigid or extreme gender difference (hypergender ideology), greater acceptance of using verbal pressure and greater misperception about a woman's friendly behaviour. […] Hypergender ideology, beliefs that heterosexual relations were adversarial and rape...2014, Antonia Quadara, “The Everydayness of Rape: How Understanding Sexual Assault Perpetration Can Inform Prevention Efforts”, in Nicola Henry, Anastasia Powell, editors, Preventing Sexual Violence...

Forms of hypergender

comparativemore hypergender
superlativemost hypergender

Origin of hypergender

From hyper- + gender.

Questions about hypergender

What does hypergender mean?
Hypergender means relating to or exhibiting strict adherence to one's traditional gender role or gender stereotypes.
What part of speech is hypergender?
Hypergender is an adjective.

Words near hypergender in the dictionary

  1. hypergastrinemias
  2. hypergastrinemic
  3. hypergelast
  4. hypergelastic
  5. hypergelasts
  6. hypergender
  7. hypergendered
  8. hypergenesis
  9. hypergenometric
  10. hypergentrification
  11. hypergeometric

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