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In feminist theory, heteropatriarchy (etymologically from heterosexual and patriarchy) or cisheteropatriarchy, is a social construct where (primarily) cisgender (same gender as identified at birth) and heterosexual males have authority over other cisgender males, females, and people with other sexual orientations and gender identities.
“Gender non-conforming was a term previously used, that still shows up in research and articles today, insinuating something is 'wrong' with a person if they are participating in something in ...
X-gender; X-jendā [48] Xenogender [21] [49] can be defined as a gender identity that references "ideas and identities outside of gender". [26]: 102 This may include descriptions of gender identity in terms of "their first name or as a real or imaginary animal" or "texture, size, shape, light, sound, or other sensory characteristics". [26]: 102
The term gender had been associated with grammar for most of history and only started to move towards it being a malleable cultural construct in the 1950s and 1960s. [27] Before the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender as a role developed, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to anything but grammatical ...
In cultures where the gender binary is prominent and important, transgender people are a major exception to the societal norms related to gender. [3] Intersex people, those who cannot be biologically determined as either male or female, are another obvious deviation. Other cultures have their own practices independent of the Western gender binary.
The Britannica dictionary defines gender as “a person's own sense of being male, female, some combination of male and female, or neither male nor female”. [57] The American Heritage Dictionary (5th edition) states that gender may be defined by identity as "neither entirely female nor entirely male"; its Usage Note adds:
Neuroqueer was initially conceptualized as a verb—neuroqueering—as a way of "queering [...] neurocognitive norms as well as gender norms". [2] Walker has indicated that, as a verb, neuroqueer "refers to a broad range of interrelated practices", and "as an adjective, it describes things that are associated with those practices or that result from those practices".
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