over-genderization

over-genderization

English

Noun

over-genderization (uncountable)

1. The excessive emphasis on or exaggeration of gender roles.
   • 1985, Philosophy of Education: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society (U.S.).:

     But even as we ask this question, I think we must also be careful to avoid premature over-generalization, or rather over-genderization.

   • 1991, Robert C. Neville, Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2009, Vlasta Jalušič, “Meanings of gender in equality policies”, in The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality, →ISBN, page 53:

     Others 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).