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gyn/ecology

gyn/ecology noun: feminist form of gynecology.

Noun

gyn/ecology (plural gyn/ecologies)

  1. (rare) Feminist 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. (rare) Relationships 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
    • 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

Forms of gyn/ecology

pluralgyn/ecologies

Origin of gyn/ecology

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.

Questions about gyn/ecology

What does gyn/ecology mean?
Gyn/ecology means feminist form of gynecology.
What part of speech is gyn/ecology?
Gyn/ecology is a noun.
What is the plural of gyn/ecology?
The plural of gyn/ecology is gyn/ecologies.

Words near gyn/ecology in the dictionary

  1. GymTok
  2. gymwear
  3. GYN
  4. gyn-
  5. gyn/ecologies
  6. gyn/ecology
  7. gynacomastia
  8. gynae
  9. gynaecandrous
  10. gynaecea
  11. gynaeceal

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