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regendering

regendering is the present participle and gerund 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

Noun

regendering (plural regenderings)

  1. The assignment of a different gender to something or someone.
    • Therefore, revisions to or subversions of the paratext in texts by women writers can, I believe, more unambiguously be read as feminist regenderings of the presentation of the text.2005, Richard Watts, Packaging Post/Coloniality, page 142

Forms of regendering

pluralregenderings

Questions about regendering

What does regendering mean?
Regendering means the assignment of a different gender to something or someone.
What is regendering the present participle and gerund of?
Regendering is the present participle and gerund of regender.
What part of speech is regendering?
Regendering is a noun.
What is the plural of regendering?
The plural of regendering is regenderings.

Words near regendering in the dictionary

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

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