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  • noun The quality of having gender.

Etymologies

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gendered +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • This is perhaps just me coming to terms with the absolute genderedness of public space.

    Vanessa Place, Round 2 Lemon Hound 2008

  • This is perhaps just me coming to terms with the absolute genderedness of public space.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • Most (3/4) were written by men, (which is it's own issue I reckon), and most were postive. 2 reviews touched on the genderedness of movie viewing in a way I thought was borderline, mostly in the way they talked about romances, but they could also have been read as commentaries/attacks on tired tropes, since Pride in Prejudice is such a template for this kind of story (Bridget Jones' Diary was mentioned).

    An Open Letter to Male Film Reviewers Writing About Pride and Prejudice Abigail Nussbaum 2006

  • Insofar as continental feminists seek to unveil the hidden genderedness of the philosophical theories they use and criticize, they are in common cause with other forms of feminist theory.

    Continental Feminism Cahill, Ann J. 2005

  • Given that (1) meaning is known to be constructed above the word-level in terms of need to be taken into account, and (3) the composite idioms in fact refer to specifically male entities, it stands to reason that is a collocation whose conjoint effect is not unlike "iron man / men" in English, in which the collocation of "man / men" with "iron" activates a level of male genderedness in

    Ancient Hebrew Poetry 2009

  • More recently, a similar idea of assimilation’s inherent genderedness was elaborated by Paula Hyman.

    Assimilation in the United States: Nineteenth Century. 2009

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