Gender Bender

This library allows you to flip the gender of a string or eBook (only works with the epub format). The motivation was to be able to examine gender norms in a fun way.

To use the epub format, I recommend the Calibre reader or the Kobo.

Installation

Python 3 only

With pip:

pip install gender-bender 

or with poetry:

poetry add gender-bender

Note: on first usage, it will install an English model for the Spacy dependency. This is unable to be installed from PyPI due to this issue.

Usage

Or from python:

fromgender_benderimportgender_bend_epubgender_bend_epub('./Mythical_Man_Month.epub')

You can also gender-bend a string:

fromgender_benderimportgender_bendx=gender_bend("If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.")
assertx=="If Ivan weren't my son, perhaps I'd be dating him."

Installing from source

Get the repo:

git clone https://github.com/Garrett-R/gender_bender.git
cd gender_bender
pip install -r requirements.txt

It can be run as a script:

./main.py --input Lord_of_the_Flies.epub --output Lady_of_the_Flies.epub

If you'd like to choose the names yourself (recommended for translating a whole ebook), you can do:

./main.py --input The_Little_Mermaid.epub --interactive-naming