Dictionary

regender en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Italic *genos Latin genus Old French gendrebor. Middle English gendre English gender English regender From re- + gender.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To gender anew (and differently). ▸ 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 gender anew (and differently). ▸ 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.
   • The "small-scale planning" of the brigades replicated at the local or factory level the larger, central strategy to regender jobs, shops, and sectors. 2002, Wendy Z. Goldman, Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia, →ISBN, page 144:
   • And I’m not sure whether the regendering is a democratizing net positive for feminism or whether we should take offense that women’s intuition translates somewhere along the spectrum of cute while its male counterpart is meant to suggest the power of a mind brilliantly deducing. 2009 January 21, Ginia Bellafante, “For TV’s Newest Crime Fighter, the Lips May Lie, but the Face Tells the Truth”, in New York Times:
   • 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:

Forms

Coordinates

resex · resex