Both Uses of
gender
in
Othello, the Moor of Venice
- Our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.†
Scene 1.3 *
- Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads To knot and gender in!†
Scene 4.2
Definition:
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(gender as in: gender discrimination) male or female
or (especially regarding self-identification): the state of being male, female, or in any of many trans categorieseditor's notes: While the word sex can almost always be substituted for this meaning of gender, gender is typically used in reference to cultural or social differences, while sex is typically used for biological differences.