| 释义 |
genderquake, n. orig. U.S.
Brit. |ˈdʒɛndəkweɪk|, U.S. |ˈdʒɛndərˌkweɪk|
[‹ gender n. + quake n.]
A radical alteration in the relationship between the sexes, esp. one resulting from deliberate changes in women's economic or political activity.
1993N. Wolf Fire with Fire Introd. p. xiv, From the autumn of 1991 to the present, a new era has begun–the era of the ‘genderquake’, in which the meaning of being a woman is changed for ever. 1994Nation (Nexis) 28 Nov. 642 Oh genderquake, where are you now?.. As it has in every election year except 1992, the women's vote has failed to materialize as a self-conscious political alignment of sufficient magnitude to sweep liberal women candidates and like-minded men into office. 1999H. Wilkinson in Rewriting Sexual Contract 240 The faultlines from the genderquake—crises in the family, gender tensions at work, and the wholesale destabilising of male identity. |