femicentric

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adjective

woman-centric; focusing on women or pertaining to a focus on women (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such focus is misandric)

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectivefemicentric (comparative more femicentric, superlative most femicentric)

comparative more femicentric · superlative most femicentric · alternative femi-centric

  1. woman-centric; focusing on women or pertaining to a focus on women (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such focus is misandric)

    It is an order which is ‘femi-centric’ — which reflects the distinctiveness of female roles and responsibilities.

    1986, International Sociological Association. Biography and Society Research Committee, Oral History Society (Great Britain), Life Stores, Issue 2
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    REVELATIONS The Linguistic Turn With the repetition of situated, equally parochial identities — Afrocentric, homocentric, Islamic, femicentric, and so on

    1997, Thomas Robbins, Millennium, messiahs, and mayhem: contemporary apocalyptic movements, page 66

    The femicentric nature of the family in South Africa, hinging as it does on women, reflects both the strength and weakness of the institution.

    2008 Jannie Hugo, Lucie Allan, Doctors for tomorrow: family medicine in South Africa, page 4
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