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genderplay

genderplay

English

Noun

genderplay (uncountable)

  1. Transgression against traditional gender roles.
    • 2009, Stan Hawkins, The British Pop Dandy: Masculinity, Popular Music and Culture (page 85)
      Given the pop star's tendency towards self-aestheticization, I think there is an argument to be made for genderplay and its close interconnection with homosociality as a performative strategy.

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