gynocentric
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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I found no shortage of fantastic female characters across the genre, from the gynocentric utopians of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1915 Herland to mathematician Elma York in Mary Robinette Kowal’s 2018 The Calculating Stars.
From Nature • Nov. 24, 2019
Again, our lead isn’t simply a modified male hero: she’s got her own gynocentric backstory, her own pacifist fighting style, she doesn’t even need a gun.
From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2017
Can a gynocentric show about Britain’s austerity years really dethrone ?
From Slate • Jan. 2, 2014
But 1950s Hollywood was awash in manly Westerns and past its gynocentric prime; it would never make a movie called A Queen and Four Kings.
From Time • Dec. 11, 2013
The prepatriarchal utopia is portrayed as egalitarian, peace loving and "gynocentric."
From Time Magazine Archive
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