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regender

regender verb: to cause (a person) to be seen to have a (new, different) gender identity or role.

Verb

regender (third-person singular simple present regenders, present participle regendering, simple past and past participle regendered)

  1. (transitive) To cause (a person) to be seen to have a (new, different) gender identity or role.
    • 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, […]1998, Kath Weston, Render Me, Gender Me, →ISBN, page 170
  2. (transitive) 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.
    • 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 […]1995, L. H. Parker, L. Rennie, B. Fraser, Gender, Science and Mathematics: Shortening the Shadow, →ISBN, page 74
    • The "small-scale planning" of the brigades replicated at the local or factory level the larger, central strategy to regender jobs, shops, and sectors.2002, Wendy Z. Goldman, Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia, →ISBN, page 144

Forms of regender

third-person singular presentregenders
present participleregendering
past participleregendered
pastregendered

Origin of regender

From re- + gender.

Questions about regender

What does regender mean?
Regender means to cause (a person) to be seen to have a (new, different) gender identity or role.
What part of speech is regender?
Regender is a verb.
What is the past tense of regender?
The past tense of regender is regendered.

Words near regender in the dictionary

  1. regencies
  2. regency
  3. Regency Kingdom of Poland
  4. Regency of Algiers
  5. regencycore
  6. regender
  7. regendered
  8. regendering
  9. regenderings
  10. regenderization
  11. regenderize

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