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Androcentrism vs Gynocentrism - What's the difference?

androcentrism | gynocentrism |

Gynocentrism is a antonym of androcentrism.



As nouns the difference between androcentrism and gynocentrism

is that androcentrism is an ideological focus on males and men, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-males. Contrast with gynocentrism while gynocentrism is an ideological focus on females, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-females. Contrast with androcentrism.

androcentrism

English

Noun

(-)
  • An ideological focus on males and men, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-males.

    • Derived terms

    * androcentric

    Antonyms

    * gynocentrism

    See also

    * phallocentrism * phallogocentrism English words suffixed with -ism

    gynocentrism

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • An ideological focus on females, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-females.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1897 , title = Book Reviews and Notes , magazine = The Open Court , volume = 11 , page = 575 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=erIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA575 , passage = We Americans have not so much need to take his admonitions to heart as Continental Europeans, seeing that captious critics are prone to regard us as suffering rather from gynocentrism than anthropocentrism. }}

    Derived terms

    *gynocentric