overgenderizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

overgenderize (三人称単数 現在形 overgenderizes, 現在分詞 overgenderizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 overgenderized)

1. (まれに) To genderize too much; to unnecessarily assign masculine or feminine qualities to.
   • 1990, Sociological Viewpoints

     Overgenderizing is not merely a response ...

   • 1990, The Invisible Majority

     ... in cultural assumptions that people accept it without question. A Gilligan, who comes from Harvard, and who expresses views that are consonant with traditional values, is an example of a powerful promulgator of ideas. Of course, she is only one of a long line of scientists who have been affected by bias. Often the scientist is unaware herself or himself. Sometimes the bias is lodged in the method of doing research. Today, for example, we are in danger of overgenderizing everything.

   • 1990, Henry Robinson Luce, Time

     The new theorists are "overgenderizing," says Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, a sociologist at City University of New York. "Seeing distinctions and stereotyping are so much a part of our culture."

   • 2018, Joe Kort, LGBTQ Clients in Therapy: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies, W. W. Norton & Company (→ISBN)

     Several trans men and women clients told me they had embarrassed themselves (in retrospect) by overdoing their gender expression, overgenderizing via clothing or behavior. What they thought at the time were “typical” male or female behaviors (these clients later decided) were “too much.” Of course, it is common for adolescents to express themselves this way for a few years.

   • 2018, Evy Varsamopoulou, The Poetics of the Kunstlerinroman and the Aesthetics of the Sublime, Routledge (→ISBN)

     However, I would not agree with their dismissal of Freudian theory as completely reducing psychology to anatomy, nor, especially, would I concede to their view of the Künstlerroman as merely 'a pattern of spiritual development in male heroes [...] virtually unavailable to the young woman in the nineteenth-century novel'.16 This kind of feminist reading can dangerously 'overgenderize' genres to the explicit disadvantage of women's Künstlerinromane in order to make the feminist.

アナグラム

• overenergized