Sentence examples for category of gender from inspiring English sources

The category of gender, which differentiates masculine, feminine, and neuter, concerns only the substantive (noun), adjective, and pronoun.

They lacked the category of gender, and they marked number and case (in part) not by endings but by different stems, as is still seen in English singular nominative "I," but oblique "my," "me"; plural nominative "we," but plural oblique "our," "us".

Based on this material, we will outline the ways by which the category of gender pervades notions and supplies sets of representations are constructed around distinct symbolic operators.

If a participant more often confuses a black-haired man with a blond-haired man, it suggests that the category of hair colour is less important than the category of gender (and similarly, if people rarely confuse a man for a woman, that also shows that gender is the stronger category).

1. Feminist work since the 1990s has questioned this divide between sex and gender and criticized both categories, suggesting both that sex is not a biological given, and that the category of gender suffers from an overgeneralization across women's varying experiences (Nicholson 1998).

It won't be complete until there is no category of gender identity variance left in the DSM, just as gay people were not completely liberated until homosexuality was completely removed several decades ago.

But a third group is emerging from the sexual wilderness that defies current categories of gender identity.

They just didn't have a concept for that.' " Another time, he declared, "There aren't two major categories of gender — every person has their own gender and will deal with it the way they deal with it".

She sidesteps the question of homosexuality, not just because the subject is too big but because, she explains, she aims to undermine the categories of gender and permissible versus impermissible sexuality that the very notion of homosexuality rests upon.

Instead the solo's structure (20 different looks, from "West Coast Preppy Schoolboy" to "Alt-Moderne Feeling the French Lieutenant's Woman") also becomes an entry point into much larger meditations on how all of us perform — sometimes reinforcing, sometimes subverting — the big shifting categories of gender, sexuality and race.

Feminists have distinguished between the categories of gender and (anatomical) sex, and for decades have focused much of their attention on gender, the analytical category capturing the cultural and social aspects of sexed bodies.[1] As a category of social relations then, gender is a significant area of investigation for social epistemology.