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  • Almost degendered, in knee-length cutoffs and plaid shirt, her hair cropped into a pudding-bowl cut around her ears, Wendy is an androgynous Everyperson, a representative American, fallen on hard times through no particular fault of her own.

    Metronatural America Raban, Jonathan 2009

  • Yet the mainstream media discourse about school shootings is typically degendered, with reporters and commentators referring to "perpetrators," "shooters," "individuals," "kids killing kids," etc., when nearly all of the killings are done by men and boys.

    Jackson Katz: Conversation with Philosopher on School Shootings 2008

  • Very cool and sci-tech albeit looking like a degendered Astroboy, but not able to demonstrate any really useful office skills other than kneeling.

    Taking a Japanese approach to getting organised | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • Thus, either disabled is a gender, or disabled people are desexualised/degendered, or all non-disabled people fit the traditional gender binary and only disabled people can be transgendered.

    Things that crack me up #45 Kay Olson 2008

  • One way around this sad reality is to construct a protagonist that is recognizably a male Romantic while developing a narrator who is altogether disembodied (and thereby degendered), existing outside of space-time like

    The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece 2006

  • Male and Female delineations were degendered in many genres, and ones like Latin jazz, Hawaiian, Native American and Polka vanished entirely.

    NYDN Rss JIM FARBER 2011

  • Men need to be degendered in body and in personality.

    Oz Conservative Mark Richardson 2010

  • Almost degendered, in knee-length cutoffs and plaid shirt, her hair cropped into a pudding-bowl cut around her ears,

    The New York Review of Books 2009

  • Rape never occurs in situations where it is degendered’; which is the point many feminists try to make.

    “Equity feminism” and rape 2005

  • I’m saying that they can’t be the primary factors, because rape occurs in contexts which are degendered.

    “Equity feminism” and rape 2005

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