All 17 Uses
gender
in
Ancillary Justice
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- Radchaai don't care much about gender, and the language they speak—my own first language—doesn't mark gender in any way.†
p. 3.3gender = male, female, or any of many trans categories
- Radchaai don't care much about gender, and the language they speak—my own first language—doesn't mark gender in any way.†
p. 3.3
- It didn't help that cues meant to distinguish gender changed from place to place, sometimes radically, and rarely made much sense to me.†
p. 3.4
- "The kind of place," I said, still safely in linguistic territory that needed no gender marking, "that will rent me a sledge and sell me a hypothermia kit.†
p. 3.7
- I could find a way to keep avoiding referring to the barkeep's gender.†
p. 4.1
- Hoping as I spoke that it was a mixed-gender group, as my sentence indicated.†
p. 6.6
- Jen Shinnan and her cousin both spoke Radchaai, so there was no need to translate, nor any anxiety over gender or status or anything else that would have been essential in Tanmind or Orsian.†
p. 52.3
- Since we weren't speaking Radchaai I had to take gender into account—Strigan's language required it.†
p. 76.9 *
- The society she lived in professed at the same time to believe gender was insignificant.†
p. 76.9
- She laughed, short and bitter—whether because I'd chosen the wrong gender for the pronoun, or something else, I wasn't certain.†
p. 77.5
- What gender had she assigned to the Lord of the Radch?†
p. 82.1
- The gender thing is a giveaway, though.†
p. 104.3
- I used to wonder how Radchaai reproduced, if they were all the same gender.†
p. 104.5
- I saw them all, suddenly, for just a moment, through nonRadchaai eyes, an eddying crowd of unnervingly ambiguously gendered people.†
p. 283.5
- I saw all the features that would mark gender for non-Radchaai—never, to my annoyance and inconvenience, the same way in each place.†
p. 283.5gender = male, female, or any of many trans categories
- A profusion of colors that would have been gender-marked in other places.†
p. 283.7
- Almost wishing the Radchaai language concerned itself with gender so I could use it wrongly and sound even more foreign.†
p. 313.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 categoriesWhile 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. -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, gender can refer to a grammatical categories. In some languages (not modern English), nouns that are not distinguishable by biological sex, can still have a feminine or masculine gender.