Defeating Bigenderism: Changing Gender Assumptions in the Twenty-first Century

Hypatia 24 (3):93-112 (2008)
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Bigenderism maintains there are only two genders, which correspond with the two sexes, male and female. Basic bigenderism requires that legal documents and public institutions designate a single invariant gender (that is, sex). Strict bigenderism applies these categories in a social context that stigmatizes "imperfect" men and women who do not reach ideals set by the bigenderist schema. I discuss these concepts and their implications, present three models that successively weaken bigenderist assumptions, and argue for the most radical of the three

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10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01047.x

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