Definitions
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- noun Discrimination against females.
- noun
Misogyny . - noun Segregation of the genders.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There's a wide range of organizations working on the prison industrial complex, which is really the new Jim and Jane Crow.
Rakim Brooks: Cultural Critic Tricia Rose: "We may have to conclude that Obama didn't materially transform black life." Rakim Brooks 2012
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After the Compromise of 1877, which ended Southern Reconstruction and began the era of Jim and Jane Crow, it was, "Here we go again!"
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Obama, coming out of Kansas influence, white, loving grandparents, coming out of Hawaii and Indonesia, when he meets these independent black folk who have a history of slavery, Jim Crow, Jane Crow and so on, he is very apprehensive.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Amarnath Amarasingam 2011
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Obama, coming out of Kansas influence, white, loving grandparents, coming out of Hawaii and Indonesia, when he meets these independent black folk who have a history of slavery, Jim Crow, Jane Crow and so on, he is very apprehensive.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Amarnath Amarasingam 2011
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