genderphobia
English
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editgenderphobia (uncountable)
- Fear, dislike, or hatred of gender-nonconforming individuals or behaviour.
- 2005 January, Vincent Stephens, “Pop goes the rapper: a close reading of Eminem's genderphobia”, in Popular Music, volume 24, number 1, page 23:
- Genderphobia is a more surreptitious form of discrimination than transphobia because it quietly adheres to hegemonic notions of gender behaviour.
- 2008, Joan Z. Spade, Catherine G. Valentine, The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities, Pine Forge Press, →ISBN, page 29:
- She characterized women's reactions to a masculine person in a public rest room as “an example of genderphobia” (1996, 117), viewing such women as policing gender boundaries rather than believing that there really is a man in the women's rest room.
- 2023 March 29, Jose Antonio Langarita, Ana Cristina Santos, Marisela Montenegro, Mojca Urek, Child-Friendly Perspectives on Gender and Sexual Diversity: Beyond Adultcentrism, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
- Genderphobia works to reinforce gendered hierarchies and the heteropatriarchal state, disenfranchising not only women, but also sexual and gender minorities. Genderphobia is also very much used to enforce xenophobic and nationalist policies […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:genderphobia.