Meanings
nounneo-misogyny (plural not attested)
alternative neomisogyny
- no pluralrareModern misogyny.
Butor thus sees in "Baudelaire's lesbianism" a kind of neo-misogyny that combines an exaltation of the mundus muliebris with the reassertion that "virility is the very sign of creative power".
1997, Dominique D. Fisher, Articulations of Difference: Gender Studies and Writing in French
Origin
From neo- + misogyny. Attested since the 20th century.
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