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gender ideology en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The set of roles and assumptions in a particular culture that are associated with gender and pertain to non-sexual activities, such as occupation, appropriate expressions of emotion, etc.
   • Many histories of classical Greece and Rome present gender roles as static universal norms conforming to the dominant patriarchal gender ideology in each culture (e.g., Cowell 1980). 2006, Sarah M. Nelson, Handbook of Gender in Archaeology, →ISBN, page 301:
   • Wollstonecraft's construction of femininity explicitly challenged the dominant gender ideology of her culture, the concept of the female promoted by conservative and radical thinkers alike, from Burke to Rousseau. 1993, Anne Kostelanetz Mellor, Romanticism & Gender, →ISBN, page 107:
   • One further important element of gender ideology is the ascription of technical competence for men and boys as opposed to girls, in other words, the role of technology in gender ideology. 2002, Sung-Jo Park, Arne Holzhausen, Benjamin Lunau, Social Science Centered Studies on Modern Japan, →ISBN, page 86:
   • The common bond between women's experience of sport and women's experience of social exclusion is that in both institutions women experience strong discrimination stemming from a pervasive gender ideology. 2003, Michael Frank Collins, Mike Collins, Tess Kay, Sport and Social Exclusion, →ISBN, page 97:
   • From the emerging data and based on Hochschild's (1989) delineation, there are three types of gender ideology—traditional, transitional and egalitarian. They can be defined in terms of marital power, expectations of men and women's production role, and expectations of emotional labor. 2012, Lake Lui, Re-negotiating Gender, →ISBN:
2. (countable, uncountable) The belief that gender is an innate identity separate from and often superseding birth sex.
   • Gender ideology is the theory that […] human individuals are properly described in terms of an "internal sense of gender" called "gender identity" that may be incongruent with their "sex assigned at birth." 2023 July 3, Jay W. Richards, “What Is Gender Ideology?”, in The American Conservative:
   • Near-synonym: transgenderism
3. (countable, derogatory, qualifier:conservatism, uncountable) Efforts to recognize LGBTQ people, identities, and rights, framed as an ideology.
   • Although it appears to pursue the good end of honouring all people, it also assumes the whole linguistic fabric of gender ideology, which aims to eliminate the concepts of male and female, dismantle corporal identity and deconstruct the human body, marriage and family. 2018 January 24, Jonathan Luxmoore, “Catholic bishops denounce LGBT diversity law”, in The Tablet:
   • One Catholic family in Indiana has suffered the unthinkable: the parents’ son was taken from their home because his parents refused to genuflect to the demands of gender ideology. 2024 February 21, Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer, “When Gender Ideology Infects the Family”, in National Christian Register:
   • "We are against gender ideology," Zeljka Markic, a leader of the conservatives, told The Associated Press. 2018 March 24, “Thousands of Croatian Far-Right Supporters March in Zagreb”, in Voice of America:
   • Some say that the latest instruction represents the promotion of the so-called gender ideology, but the Ministry denies this, reports Večernji List 2018 June 14, Vedran Pavlic, “Transgender People Have a Right to Be Issued New Diplomas”, in Total Croatia News:
   • Brazil’s Bolsonaro has denounced the presence of “Marxist rubbish,” political debate, and “gender ideology” on Brazil’s school campuses. Militants opposing so-called gender ideology throughout Latin America erroneously argue that teaching sexual education attracts young people toward homosexuality, feminizes boys, and masculinizes girls. 2019 March 7, Natalia Cote-Muñoz, “Murdered Women Can’t Celebrate International Women’s Day”, in Foreign Policy:

Forms

Relateds

genderist · transgenderism · genderism

Synonyms

transgenderism

Translations (12)

pt ideologia de género (belief/derogatory term) · fi sukupuoli-ideologia (belief/derogatory term) · de Gender-Ideologie (belief/derogatory term) · hu genderideológia (belief/derogatory term) · gl ideoloxía de xénero (belief/derogatory term) · fi sukupuoli-ideologia (set of roles and assumptions) · cmn 性別意識形態 /性别意识形态 (belief/derogatory term) · cmn 性別意識形態 /性别意识形态 (set of roles and assumptions) · pt ideologia de gênero (belief/derogatory term) · de Genderideologie (belief/derogatory term) · es ideología de género (belief/derogatory term) · fr idéologie du genre (belief/derogatory term)