homogender

homogender

English

Etymology

homo- +‎ gender

Adjective

homogender (not comparable)

1. Involving people with the same gender identity.
   • 1997, Judith L. On, "Hard Work, Hard Lovin', Hard Times, Hardly Worth It: Care of Working-Class Men", in The Care of Men (eds. Christie Cozad Neuger & James Newton Poling), Abingdon Press (1997), →ISBN, unnumbered pages:

     All three settings—the shop, the military, and the world of team sports—have been homogender worlds of cultural masculinity, with much resistance to changing that fact.

   • 2007, Sharyn Graham Davies, Challenging Gender Norms: Five Genders Among Bugis in Indonesia, Thomson Wadsworth (2007), →ISBN, page 26:

     Same-sex heterogender relationships are more openly acknowledged in Bugis society than same-sex homogender relationships.

   • 2008, Merle B. Turner, Friendship, Xlibris (2008), →ISBN, page 20:

     Not all friendships are homogender, as it were, nor within the same class or age group.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:homogender.

Antonyms

• heterogender