postgender

adj, noun — 3 senses

postgender

adj

Etymology From post- + gender.

1

Usually beyond gender; not (any longer) gendered.

  • Gay and lesbian folks don't have a corner on the market — of course there are straight people who think about gender — but odds were better that our gay and lesbian friends were going to be a little more postgender in their thinking, […]2007, Helen Boyd, She's not the man I married: my life with a transgender husband, page 192:
  • Those who gesture with revolutionary fervor toward a postgender or post-binary or post-male-dominated world cannot, as the old saw has it, get there from here.2010, Alice Adams, Shameless propositions: women's sexuality and theoretical authority, page 139:
2

Usually, Of a marriage or couple Which divides household labor equally or in a manner other than according to traditional gender roles.

  • Traditional gender manifests itself among postgender dual-career couples in a common, but not universal, tendency for wives to hold higher standards for household cleanliness.2002, Adie Nelson, Barrie Robinson, Gender in Canada, page 455:
Synonyms
posttraditional
Antonyms
pregender

postgender

noun

Etymology From post- + gender.

1

Rare A person who is postgender, who is not (any longer) gendered, or who does not (any longer) identify as gendered.

  • Contributors to Posthuman Bodies, edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston, offer futuristic looks at "queers," trans-genders, postgenders, and automated teller machines,2001, Joseph Slade, Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide, volume 2, page 373:
  • Similarly, there will be all sorts of individuals among trans-people too: we are not represented by transsexuals only, there are transvestites, transgenders, genderblenders, postgenders etc. in our midst.2001, Jan Wickman, Transgender politics: the construction and deconstruction of binary gender in the Finnish transgender community, page 204:
Related terms
postgenderism, transgender, postsexual, transsexual, androgyny

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