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Gynocentrism vs Matriarchy - What's the difference?

gynocentrism | matriarchy |

As nouns the difference between gynocentrism and matriarchy

is that gynocentrism is an ideological focus on females, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-females while matriarchy is a social system in which the mother is head of household, having authority over men and children.

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

    matriarchy

    English

    (wikipedia matriarchy)

    Noun

    (matriarchies)
  • A social system in which the mother is head of household, having authority over men and children.
  • A system of government by females (particularly as a kind of polity).
  • The dominance of women in social or cultural systems.

    • Synonyms

    * matriarchate

    See also

    * patriarchy English words suffixed with -archy