different between femicentric vs feminocentrism

English

Alternative forms

• femi-centric

Adjective

femicentric (comparative more femicentric, superlative most femicentric)

1. 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.

Related terms

• feminocentric, feminacentric
• feminist

English

Etymology

From Latin f?mina +? -centrism.

Noun

feminocentrism (uncountable)

1. 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.

   • 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

Related terms

• feminocentric
• femicentric
• feminacentric