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Back in the days, the 'gender', more properly known as 'sex', was what the person was born naked with. I'm not sure if you knew this but the word 'gender' was only used for 'words' in langauge(s) before it began being used to refer to person.
In 1926, Henry Watson Fowler stated that the definition of the word pertained to this grammar-related meaning:
"Gender...is a grammatical term only. To talk of persons...of the masculine or feminine g[ender], meaning of the male or female sex, is either a jocularity (permissible or not according to context) or a blunder."
The modern academic sense of the word, in the context of social roles of men and women, dates at least back to 1945,[14] and was popularized and developed by the feminist movement from the 1970s onwards (see § Feminism theory and gender studies below), which theorizes that human nature is essentially epicene and social distinctions based on sex are arbitrarily constructed. In this context, matters pertaining to this theoretical process of social construction were labelled matters of gender.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender
Before 1926, I guess it was much more difficult to 'role play' the part of a woman if you were a man but might have been easier to 'role play' as a man if you were a female in society.
Today most people wouldn't bat an eye at a women wearing pants or a bow tie (in the western world), but it wasn't always this way. In fact, prior to the late 19th and early 20th century, social customs were very strict regarding women’s clothing, with women wearing dresses, underskirts and painfully tight corsets.
In the 1850's, women's rights activist, Amelia Bloomer, started to shake things up. She advocated for women to ditch the tight corsets and heavy petticoats worn under their skirts. Initially inspired from Turkish dress, the wide lose fitting pants worn under a knee length skirt, were aptly named the "Bloomer". The Bloomer became a symbol of women's rights in the early 1850s and was worn by famous feminists, like Susan B Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Then in the 1920's, there was another big shift in women’s clothing with women entering the workforce during WWI and gaining the right to vote. They had to think more practically about their outfits, and demanded less restrictive, more casual attire. Although women continued to wear skirts, their clothing became more masculine, loser and sporty.
https://kirrinfinch.com/blogs/news/history-of-women-wearing-mens-clothing
After a brief time as a school teacher at the age of 17, she decided to relocate, and moved in with her newly married sister Elvira, then living in Waterloo. Within a year she had moved into the home of the Oren Chamberlain family in Seneca Falls to act as the live-in governess for their three youngest children.[1]
When she was 22, she married attorney Dexter Bloomer who encouraged her to write for his New York newspaper, the Seneca Falls County Courier. Bloomer supported her activism, he even gave up drinking as part of the Temperance Movement
She spent her early years in Cortland County, New York. Bloomer and her family moved to Iowa in 1852
Amelia Jenks was born in 1818 in Homer, New York. She came from a family of modest means and received only a few years of formal education in the local district school.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Bloomer
In 1926, Henry Watson Fowler stated that the definition of the word pertained to this grammar-related meaning:
"Gender...is a grammatical term only. To talk of persons...of the masculine or feminine g[ender], meaning of the male or female sex, is either a jocularity (permissible or not according to context) or a blunder."
The modern academic sense of the word, in the context of social roles of men and women, dates at least back to 1945,[14] and was popularized and developed by the feminist movement from the 1970s onwards (see § Feminism theory and gender studies below), which theorizes that human nature is essentially epicene and social distinctions based on sex are arbitrarily constructed. In this context, matters pertaining to this theoretical process of social construction were labelled matters of gender.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender
Before 1926, I guess it was much more difficult to 'role play' the part of a woman if you were a man but might have been easier to 'role play' as a man if you were a female in society.
Today most people wouldn't bat an eye at a women wearing pants or a bow tie (in the western world), but it wasn't always this way. In fact, prior to the late 19th and early 20th century, social customs were very strict regarding women’s clothing, with women wearing dresses, underskirts and painfully tight corsets.
In the 1850's, women's rights activist, Amelia Bloomer, started to shake things up. She advocated for women to ditch the tight corsets and heavy petticoats worn under their skirts. Initially inspired from Turkish dress, the wide lose fitting pants worn under a knee length skirt, were aptly named the "Bloomer". The Bloomer became a symbol of women's rights in the early 1850s and was worn by famous feminists, like Susan B Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Then in the 1920's, there was another big shift in women’s clothing with women entering the workforce during WWI and gaining the right to vote. They had to think more practically about their outfits, and demanded less restrictive, more casual attire. Although women continued to wear skirts, their clothing became more masculine, loser and sporty.
https://kirrinfinch.com/blogs/news/history-of-women-wearing-mens-clothing
After a brief time as a school teacher at the age of 17, she decided to relocate, and moved in with her newly married sister Elvira, then living in Waterloo. Within a year she had moved into the home of the Oren Chamberlain family in Seneca Falls to act as the live-in governess for their three youngest children.[1]
When she was 22, she married attorney Dexter Bloomer who encouraged her to write for his New York newspaper, the Seneca Falls County Courier. Bloomer supported her activism, he even gave up drinking as part of the Temperance Movement
She spent her early years in Cortland County, New York. Bloomer and her family moved to Iowa in 1852
Amelia Jenks was born in 1818 in Homer, New York. She came from a family of modest means and received only a few years of formal education in the local district school.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Bloomer
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