gender-critical

Critically examining the role of gender in a text, a person’s experiences, etc.

[…] in order to understand the nature of gender in society and the domination of men in most forms of social life, one needs to take a gender-critical perspective of both men and women and the interrelations between them (Evans, 1988); and, in order to bring about any enduring gender equity, men and women need, separately and collectively, to reach a gender-critical understanding and make the changes to their lives accordingly.

A decade or more later, it is instructive to consider the status of both feminist and gender-critical approaches to the study of religion. As I have argued elsewhere, despite the ubiquity of gendering as a cultural practice, its significance within religion systems, and its foundational role in shaping human possibility and opportunity, gender has not been widely adopted as an essential analytical category by scholars of religion.

Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to gender-critical feminism.

As a gender critical feminist and an attorney, I have been analyzing the legal and medical conflation of gender with sex for years.

I don’t believe that all, or even most, ‘gender-critical’ editorials genuinely set out to make our lives harder: more that their writers don’t realise the impact they can have in the structure outlined above.