Meanings
plural gyn/ecologies
- rareFeminist form of gynecology.
Within colonial gyn/ecology, America became a crucial site hospitable to natality, to the promise of a new kind of human, namely, "the high-caste lady doctor."
2025 September 26, Sandhya Shetty, Imperial Pharmakon: Writing and Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 404 - rarefeminismRelationships between women, and the study thereof.
To study the gyn/ecology of these novelists is to understand that these are women in the process of becoming.
1991, Seminar1 more example
Despite the dark undertones of Maryland, the chapter argues that through the plays' exploration of gyn/ecologies in women's relationships and beyond, wider ecologies of care and solidarity may be "dis-cover [ed] [and] de-velop[ed]"[…]
2023 January 30, Elisabeth Angel-Perez, Aloysia Rousseau, The New Wave of British Women Playwrights: 2008 – 2021, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 40
Origin
Rebracketing of gynecology to highlight the terms gyn- (“to do with women”) and ecology (“study of interactions in nature”). By surface analysis, gyn- + eco- + -logy. Coined by American feminist philosopher and theologian Mary Daly in 1978.
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