Postgender

Quick meaning: Postgender is an adjective meaning (Having moved) beyond gender; not (any longer) gendered.

Meaning

(Having moved) beyond gender; not (any longer) gendered.

More Meanings

1. (of a marriage or couple) Which divides household labor equally or in a manner other than according to traditional gender roles.
2. (rare) A person who is postgender, who is not (any longer) gendered, or who does not (any longer) identify as gendered.

Example Sentences

Those who gesture with revolutionary fervor toward a postgender or post-binary or post-male-dominated world cannot, as the old saw has it, get there from here.

Traditional gender manifests itself among postgender dual-career couples in a common, but not universal, tendency for wives to hold higher standards for household cleanliness.

Contributors to Posthuman Bodies, edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston, offer futuristic looks at "queers," trans-genders, postgenders, and automated teller machines,

Similarly, there will be all sorts of individuals among trans-people too: we are not represented by transsexuals only, there are transvestites, transgenders, genderblenders, postgenders etc. in our midst.

Word Forms

• postgenders

Antonyms for postgender

Common opposites include pregender.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include postgendered, agendered, ungendered, agender, gender-neutral, nongender.

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