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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting gynocentrism; focused on females.

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gyno +‎ -centric

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Examples

  • Because feminist approaches to ethics tend to be gynocentric as well as gender sensitive, nonfeminist critics of them have complained that these approaches are “female-biased.”

    Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009

  • I agree that something is fishy with this 'Mother Catha' business and it smells almost like an airy-fairy, gynocentric myth invented by an overzealous New Age camp rather than a tenable hypothesis based on historical reality.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • I agree that something is fishy with this 'Mother Catha' business and it smells almost like an airy-fairy, gynocentric myth invented by an overzealous New Age camp rather than a tenable hypothesis based on historical reality.

    Etruscan inscription REE 59,1993 2009

  • It is imbued with a gynocentric metaphor, creating a sensation of total surrender to a feeling of lassitude that was spreading “all over her being, as if a fountain of tepid water was flowing inside her, impregnating her body to the last cell.”

    Elisa Lispector. 2009

  • Anyone taking bets on whether our New Labour government is about to redress this most appalling aspect of our gynocentric legal system any time soon?

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • I have stated before that feminism should not be gynocentric and misandrist any day and it should be aimed at full civil and legal equality for women.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • I assume she's trying to appeal to the aforementioned new-age fanbase because I can't for the life of me find structure in this suspiciously gynocentric rant and thinly-stretched game of hyperassociation.

    The so-called "Etruscan" goddess Losna: Another nail in her coffin 2008

  • Thus, to approach this world as if it were all a patriarchal conspiracy is to miss those texts that reflect a gynocentric point of view.

    God's Woman Trouble 2007

  • With this kind of unconscious as its real foundation, then, "the novel is about the collision between androcentric [male-centered] and gynocentric [woman-centered] theories of creation, a collision that results in the denigration of maternal childbearing through its circumvention by male creation" (Homans 105).

    Hogle, Introduction, Frankenstein's Dream, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles 2003

  • Elsewhere, this most gynocentric of networks will present

    Slate Magazine Troy Patterson 2011

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