antigenderism

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noun

Opposition to "gender ideology" or "genderism" (a variously-defined catch-all for things like transgender rights, same-sex marriage, and feminism).

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Meanings

nounantigenderism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableOpposition to "gender ideology" or "genderism" (a variously-defined catch-all for things like transgender rights, same-sex marriage, and feminism).

    For this reason, there is also a mounting trend towards talk of 'antigenderism' (On the current shift from antifeminism to 'antigenderism', […])

    2016, Brigitte Liebig, Karin Gottschall, Birgit Sauer, Gender Equality in Context: Policies and Practices in Switzerland, Barbara Budrich, →ISBN, page 250
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    Historically, the current antigenderism is the latest sociohistorical expression of several waves of antifeminism since the nineteenth century, […]

    2020, Heidemarie Winkel, Angelika Poferl, Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities: Re-reading Social Constructions of Gender across the Globe in a Decolonial Perspective, Routledge, →ISBN
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