Femicentric vs Feminocentrism - What's the difference?

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Femicentric is a related term of feminocentrism.

As an adjective femicentric

is woman-centric; focusing on women or pertaining to a focus on women (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such focus is misandric).

As a noun feminocentrism is

focus on women; a female-centered worldview (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such a focus is misandric).

femicentric

English

Alternative forms

* femi-centric

Adjective

(en adjective)

woman-centric; focusing on women or pertaining to a focus on women (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such focus is misandric)

* 1986 , International Sociological Association. Biography and Society Research Committee, Oral History Society (Great Britain), Life Stores , Issue 2

It is an order which is ‘femi-centric ’ — which reflects the distinctiveness of female roles and responsibilities.

* 1997 , Thomas Robbins, Millennium, messiahs, and mayhem: contemporary apocalyptic movements , page 66

REVELATIONS The Linguistic Turn With the repetition of situated, equally parochial identities — Afrocentric, homocentric, Islamic, femicentric , and so on

* 2008 Jannie Hugo, Lucie Allan, Doctors for tomorrow: family medicine in South Africa , page 4

The femicentric nature of the family in South Africa, hinging as it does on women, reflects both the strength and weakness of the institution.

feminocentrism

English

Noun

(-)

focus on women; a female-centered worldview (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such a focus is misandric)

* 1994 , Constance D. Harsh, Subversive heroines: feminist resolutions of social crisis in the condition-of-England novel

Feminocentrism and the Road to Female Empowerment At the onset of the riot scene in North and South, Margaret Hale is safely stationed with the Thornton family on the second floor of their home.

* 2002 , Cecilia Reynolds, Women and school leadership: international perspectives , page 152:

This method of inquiry is more holistic, as it goes beyond criticisms of androcentrism or feminocentrism (the practice of viewing the world and shaping reality from a male lens then, conversely, from a female lens)

* 2003 , Suzanne Rodin Pucci, James Thompson, Jane Austen and Co: remaking the past in contemporary culture , page 249:

As Laura Mulvey and many other film theorists have argued, this is a structural position that women rarely occupy in commercial cinema. Unsurprisingly, therefore, the feminocentrism of the novels is cited by several of those involved in the recent productions

Synonyms

* gynocentrism