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vaginocentrism

vaginocentrism noun: focus on a female point of view.

Noun

vaginocentrism (uncountable)

  1. Focus on a female point of view.
    • In the place of the paradoxical phallocentrism Gather offers in that novel, the epilogue of Sapphim and the Slave Girl posits a vaginocentrism that refutes as strongly as phallocentrism the androgynous sexuality posited by Phyllis Robinson as the outcome of Cather's concern with sexuality.1988, Robert James Nelson, Willa Cather and France: In Search of the Lost Language, page 138
    • The first option would result in replacing phallocentrism with vaginocentrism, an option that neither she nor Derrida advocates.2013, Susan J. Hekman, Gender and Knowledge: Elements of a Postmodern Feminism

Origin of vaginocentrism

From vagino- + -centrism.

Questions about vaginocentrism

What does vaginocentrism mean?
Vaginocentrism means focus on a female point of view.
What part of speech is vaginocentrism?
Vaginocentrism is a noun.

Words near vaginocentrism in the dictionary

  1. vaginizes
  2. vaginizing
  3. vagino-
  4. vaginoabdominal
  5. vaginocentric
  6. vaginocentrism
  7. vaginocervical
  8. vaginocracy
  9. vaginodynia
  10. vaginofixation
  11. vaginofixations

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