Meanings
- uncountableThe excessive emphasis on or exaggeration of gender roles.
But even as we ask this question, I think we must also be careful to avoid premature over-generalization, or rather over-genderization.
1985, Philosophy of Education: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society (U.S.).2 more examples
But these are more circumscribed than is often thought, and not to recognize their limits is to accept an undue burden of primitiveness and over-genderization in theology.
1991, Robert C. Neville, Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology, →ISBNOthers criticize the conceptual career of the term as a hegemonic conceptual and political category or as an exaggerated substitution for the woman (Maynard 1995: 24 in Kahlert 2005: 53, 60; Wetterer 2002: 129), and write about the process of over-genderization (Kasic 2004).
2009, Vlasta Jalušič, “Meanings of gender in equality policies”, in The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality, →ISBN, page 53
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