genderbending

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The changing of a character's gender within a story.

   • There is one episode in the novel, however, where questions of racial masquerade intrude on the freewheeling genderbending of the main characters.
   • The genre is traditionally nonsexual, despite the scantily clad bimbos on the covers of its pulp magazines of the 1950s and despite its politically correct genderbending of the 1970s and 1980s.
2. 2

   Confounding attempts to identity one's gender, especially by dressing in the clothes of…

   Confounding attempts to identity one's gender, especially by dressing in the clothes of another sex or in a way that makes one's gender identity ambiguous.

   • When the band broke up, Reed reinvented himself as a genderbending gutter poet and earned the nickname “The Godfather of Punk”, mostly by going out his way to subvert his fans' expectations on albums […]
3. 3

   present participle and gerund of genderbend

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