gender-swapping

See also: genderswapping

English

Noun

gender-swapping (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of genderswapping
   • 2007, Anne Tourney, Lying in Mid-Air, Virgin Books (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     About a month ago, when Lauryn was starting to feel a bit burned out on the heterosexual internet dating scene, she had started toying with the idea of pretending to be a man online. There was hardly anything new about gender-swapping on the interent, but having a cyber-penis was a revolutionary discovery to Lauryn.

   • 2011, Ferdinand Francino & Jane Guiller, "'Is That Your Boyfriend?:' An Experiential and Theoretical Approach to Understanding Gender-Bending in Virtual Worlds", in Reinventing Ourselves: Contemporary Concepts of Identity in Virtual Worlds (eds. Anna Peachey & Mark Childs), Springer (2011), →ISBN, page 173:

     This has been a single case study of one man's gender-bending experiences online but it demonstrates the potential for further research into the impact of gender-swapping experiences on identity and the offline self. It also questions previous conclusions in this area that gender-swapping does not impact significantly on the online self and that such experiences do not lead us to learn anything about gender (see e.g., Lewis 2004).

   • 2011, Boris Johnson, Johnson’s Life of London: The People Who Made the City That Made the World, HarperCollins (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Throughout the comedies, all manner of confusion and gender-swapping and mistaken identity is resolved with Mozartian harmony and multiple weddings.