gender-free
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From gender + -free.
Base: gender
Affixes: -free
Inflected forms:
form: more gender-free
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gender-free
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: genderfree
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, agender, being neither male nor female nor any third gender; free of gender.
pos: adj
examples: When we rendezvous shortly thereafter, I learn that the box office is being manned, if that's the right word, by an odd-looking grizzled entity unknown to my wife but whom I infer from her description (and soon after confirm) to be the genderfree or ambigendered "Ditsy" from Maintenance, [...]
Individuals holding these views challenge the existing Western binary and categorical sex-gender system, increasingly identifying as bigender, gender blender, or gender-free.
I began thinking of myself as a gender-free person.
gloss: Of a word, object, etc., acceptable for or available to any gender.
pos: adj
examples: He got the idea of transforming the traditional sashiko — quilted-cotton worker's pants and jacket fabric — into a modern leisure fabric, a homegrown equivalent of denim, which became another early source of gender-free clothing.
The term ‘engineer’ is apparently a gender-free term - there is no single word meaning ‘female engineer’ - but it seems to contain an invisible male marking. ‘Nurse’ works in the opposite way, [...]
In the German, Buber often used the term Mensch, a gender-free term, which is best translated as person or human being. In contrast, the term Mann does refer to a male person.
During the same decades in which feminist critiques of generic uses of “man” and “he” led to widespread changes in usage — no mean feat — "you guys” became even more widely accepted as an informal and allegedly gender-free phrase.
Tabyi-daw, Hiroko Kawanami observes, is a gender-free term of self-address used when speaking to monks.
Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters.
Well, liberation has made retirement a gender-free option, and we are facing not only the notion of fixing lunch every day, but also of eating it alone. Which is a large part of the problem.
Gender-free toys. Let children of either sex play with the dolls, houses, tea sets, blocks, trucks, and fireman's hats however they choose. Your little girl may grow up to be an engineer or an anthropologist, and your little boy may become the most exquisite chef.
gloss: Of a society, which does not define people on the basis of gender; in which gender is irrelevant to people's lives and choices.
pos: adj
examples: So once the notion of a gender-free society is clarified, there should be widespread agreement [...]
Many argue that we must build a gender-free world, that is, a world in which society does not define and organize all people on the basis of gender categories.
The underlying argument is that if gender relations were altered at the level of social structure (ie, in the social institutions of the family, workplace, state policies, the courts, and media), a more gender-free world would eventually lead to gender-free parenting.
Do you think a child raised in a relatively gender-free environment will develop differently from other children?
Japanese reformers speak of ‘gender-free’ situations as the goal of reform. [...] A gender-free society remains a useful conceptual benchmark for thinking about change.
Synonyms: agender
agendered
Antonyms: gendered
gender-specific
gendered
Related words: androgynous
bigender
ambigender
genderqueer
transgender
cisgender
male
female
masculine
feminine
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