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over-genderization en · NOUN

Etymology

From over- + genderization.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The excessive emphasis on or exaggeration of gender roles.
    • But even as we ask this question, I think we must also be careful to avoid premature over-generalization, or rather over-genderization. 1985, Philosophy of Education: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society (U.S.).:
    • Others criticize the conceptual career of the term as a hegemonic conceptual and political category or as an exaggerated substitution for the woman (Maynard 1995: 24 in Kahlert 2005: 53, 60; Wetterer 2002: 129), and write about the process of over-genderization (Kasic 2004). 2009, Vlasta Jalušič, “Meanings of gender in equality policies”, in The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality, →ISBN, page 53:
    • But these are more circumscribed than is often thought, and not to recognize their limits is to accept an undue burden of primitiveness and over-genderization in theology. 1991, Robert C. Neville, Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology, →ISBN: