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regendered

regendered is the simple past and past participle of regender.

Meaning of regender

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

Questions about regendered

What is regendered the simple past and past participle of?
Regendered is the simple past and past participle of regender.

Words near regendered in the dictionary

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

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