genderbending
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editgenderbending (uncountable)
- The changing of a character's gender within a story.
- 2000, David John Bell, Barbara M. Kennedy, The Cybercultures Reader, page 452:
- There is one episode in the novel, however, where questions of racial masquerade intrude on the freewheeling genderbending of the main characters.
- 2006, Peter Swirski, The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem, page 75:
- The genre is traditionally nonsexual, despite the scantily clad bimbos on the covers of its pulp magazines of the 1950s and despite its politically correct genderbending of the 1970s and 1980s.
Adjective
editgenderbending (not comparable)
- Confounding attempts to identity one's gender, especially by dressing in the clothes of another sex or in a way that makes one's gender identity ambiguous.
Verb
editgenderbending
- present participle and gerund of genderbend