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  • verb Present participle of gender.
  • noun The assignment of gender to something or somebody.

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Examples

  • Otherwise, the sources are ambivalent in gendering the crusaders, identifying the sex only of individual children, most notably the leaders, who were male. back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • The mis-gendering is more subtle than wrong pronouns in this one (which, it is true occurs so often that I suppose we should be grateful it’s avoided that), but what it * does* do is artificialise her gender, suggest it to be less real than cis genders.

    Trans woman murdered in Belgrade 2009

  • One of the ways that such consumption of cultural forms might indeed change material practice is, I suggest, through the consolidating or overthrow of the affective practice of the subject, by which I here chiefly mean gendering, which is for us not mainly a matter of consciousness, i.e. of ideology but of her feelings.

    Political Affairs Magazine 2009

  • One of the ways that such consumption of cultural forms might indeed change material practice is, I suggest, through the consolidating or overthrow of the affective practice of the subject, by which I here chiefly mean gendering, which is for us not mainly a matter of consciousness, i.e. of ideology but of her feelings.

    Political Affairs Magazine 2009

  • It laid the groundwork for me for an understanding that costuming and a little bit of "gendering" can be, when responsibly used, a very powerful aspect of performance.

    Albert Imperato: Cameron Carpenter -- Taking His Organ on the Road 2010

  • It laid the groundwork for me for an understanding that costuming and a little bit of "gendering" can be, when responsibly used, a very powerful aspect of performance.

    Albert Imperato: Cameron Carpenter -- Taking His Organ on the Road 2010

  • So gender structures are 'gendering' the dilemma and making it much worse for women than for men

    Crooked Timber 2009

  • My first response to such challenges would be that they in themselves express a certain kind of gendering of the woman professor.

    The Clutter Museum 2008

  • My first response to such challenges would be that they in themselves express a certain kind of gendering of the woman professor.

    BlogHer 2008

  • My first response to such challenges would be that they in themselves express a certain kind of gendering of the woman professor.

    Reassigned Time 2008

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