genderscape
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
genderscape (plural genderscapes)
- The landscape or variety of gender within a particular context; the attitudes, roles, and beliefs about gender in a culture.
- 2000, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species, page xi:
- During the years of my education and early career, the genderscape of the natural sciences was transformed by a broader inclusion of women.
- 2003, Penny Holland, We Don't Play With Guns Here: War, Weapon and Superhero Play in the Early Years, page 24:
- I will now return to an exploration of how such prescriptive responses to gendered behaviours creates a genderscape in the early years classroom which can limit the options for both girls and boys.
- 2012, D. Ging, Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema, unnumbered page:
- Thus, for example, in the 1990s, the mythopoetic strand of the American men's movement drew on ancient myths in order to argue for a natural, pre-ordained gender order, in spite of the fact that these myths derived from a patriarchal, feudal past whose genderscape was no more natural than the present one.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:genderscape.