| 单词 | gender-bending |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgender-bending gender-bending adj. and n. [after gender-bender n.] (a) adj. that defies or challenges traditional notions of gender, esp. in terms of dress or behaviour; (b) n. gender-bending activity; the action or practice of dressing and behaving in a manner characteristic of the opposite sex. ΚΠ 1980 B. Larson Rock vii. 51 In spite of his gender-bending ways, Sylvester admits that his professional singing career started on the California gospel circuit. 1984 Observer 11 Mar. 47/1 This ‘gender-bending’, as it has been dubbed, is not news in the world of popular music. 1987 Herald (Melbourne) (Nexis) 11 Aug. We will have to get used to the gender bending novelty of a lord mayor who is a woman and a lady mayoress who is a man. 1993 Esquire June 34/3 The English have always gone in for gender bending, whether of the old-fashioned music-hall variety (Benny Hill in a tutu) or something more with-it (the Kinks song ‘Lola’). 2009 MovieMail July 26/3 Theresa Russell cross-dresses as a doomed King in a gender-bending dreamy visualisation of Un ballo in maschera. < as lemmas |
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