gynecocide

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English

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Etymology

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Regular formation from gyneco- +‎ -cide.

Noun

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gynecocide (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Alternative form of gynecide and gynocide
    • 2003, Sharon A. Farmer, Carol Braun Pasternack, Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages[1], →ISBN, page 28:
      I suggest, therefore, that the "genocide" to which Irigaray refers is not the end of humanity, but the end of women, a gynecocide via the disappearance of sexual difference into the "masculine-neutral" that would be the ultimate triumph of the masculinist economy, the fulfillment of a masculinist dream of a world without women, and thus the ultimate triumph of the Phallus.