1. gender - Noun
2. gender - Adjective
3. gender - Verb
Kind; sort.
Sex, male or female.
A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.
To beget; to engender.
To copulate; to breed.
Source: Webster's dictionaryGender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself. Judith Butler
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. Judith Butler
There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. Lawrence Wright
You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. Andrea Dworkin
Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women. Catharine MacKinnon
As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward. Lydia Sigourney