Adjective

(en adjective)

Pertaining to government by women.

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, year = 1838 , title = The American in Paris , first = John , last = Sanderson , volume = 2 , location = London , publisher = Henry Colburn , page = 280 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=ongDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA280&dq=gynocratic , passage = How it should exist where there are ladies, I do not conceive, and, least of all, do I conceive how it should exist in Philadelphia, the most gynocratic of all cities. }}

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, year = 1971 , title = (The First Sex) , first = Elizabeth Gould , last = Davis , authorlink = Elizabeth Gould Davis , location = New York , publisher = G. P. Putnam's Sons , section = ch. 3 , passage = More and more, archaeology is proving that there was indeed a golden age—a gynocratic age that endured for untold millennia, up past the dawn of written history. }}

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, year = 1986 , title = The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in Ancient Indian Traditions , first = Paula Gunn , last = Allen , authorlink = Paula Gunn Allen , location = Boston , publisher = Beacon Press , isbn = 0807046000 , ol = 2552612M , page = 2 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=GbmiBwf1qHYC&pg=PA2&dq=gynocratic , passage = Traditional tribal lifestyles are more often gynocratic than not, and they are never patriarchal. }}