postgender en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From post- + gender.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, qualifier:Having moved, usually) beyond gender; not (any longer) gendered.
Those who gesture with revolutionary fervor toward a postgender or post-binary or post-male-dominated world cannot, as the old saw has it, get there from here.
2010, Alice Adams, Shameless propositions: women's sexuality and theoretical authority, page 139:Gay and lesbian folks don't have a corner on the market — of course there are straight people who think about gender — but odds were better that our gay and lesbian friends were going to be a little more postgender in their thinking, […]
2007, Helen Boyd, She's not the man I married: my life with a transgender husband, page 192:
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(not-comparable, of a marriage or couple, usually) Which divides household labor equally or in a manner other than according to traditional gender roles.
Traditional gender manifests itself among postgender dual-career couples in a common, but not universal, tendency for wives to hold higher standards for household cleanliness.
2002, Adie Nelson, Barrie Robinson, Gender in Canada, page 455:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more postgender | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most postgender | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Synonyms
posttraditional (of a marriage, not divided by gender roles)