genderology

English

Etymology

gender +‎ -ology

Noun

genderology (uncountable)

1. The study of gender, gender roles, or gender relations.

   Synonym: gender studies

   • 1996, Clinton J. Jesser, Fierce and Tender Men: Sociological Aspects of the Men's Movement‎^[1], page 6:

     As long as societies label people “male/female,” “boy”/“man,” “girl”/“woman” and attach some significance to these labels, genderology has a subject matter — a reason for existence.

   • 2012, Tom Vorlen, The Healer of Our Time: A Novel of Medicine‎^[2], page 334:

     Around me I noticed piles of manuscripts, stacks of magazines, genderology journals, feminist mags, and women’s self-improvement glossies—Gendereflections, m/f/n, Annals of Applied Gyngnomics, Femme Vitale, Moué, elfin, Executress, and Chrysalis: The Magazine for Women Who Change—all bristling with coded Post-its.

   • 2021, Liu Juan, Laris S. Pichkova, Olga O. Chertovskikh, “Gender Education as a Way to Overcome Cultural Conflict”, in Aleksei V. Bogoviz, Artem I. Krivtsov, Elena G. Popkova, editors, Strategies for the Global Economic System for 2030‎^[3], page 76:

     Genderology in the broadest sense examines gender-related issues from the point of view of psychology and sociology.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:genderology.
2. The conceptualization of gender in a particular cultural or temporal context.

   Synonym: genderscape

   • 1990, ADRIS Newsletter, volumes 20-21, page 14:

     Verna E. F. Harrison, "Male and Female in Cappadocian Theology" […] is an indepth study of the genderology of Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory of Nyssa.

   • 1994, Barbara Kosta, Recasting Autobiography: Women's Counterfictions in Contemporary German Literature‎^[4], page 11:

     Subsequently, women's productions, relegated to less-valued categories, tended to entomb women ever more securely into an eighteenth-century "genderology."

   • 2022, Isabelle Algrain, “Gender, perfume and society in ancient Athens”, in Uros Matić, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, editors, Beautiful Bodies: Gender and Corporeal Aesthetics in the Past, unnumbered page:

     It is also important to emphasise that by passing down and around such a conceptualisation of “proper femininity”, the elite “genderology” was reproduced in local contexts, which generated a feedback effect of strengthening the overall androcracy.