gyn/ecology

noun

Feminist form of gynecology.

Meanings

noungyn/ecology (plural gyn/ecologies)

plural gyn/ecologies

  1. 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
  2. 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, Seminar
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    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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