different between feminocentric vs femicentric

English

Alternative forms

• feminacentric

Adjective

feminocentric (comparative more feminocentric, superlative most feminocentric)

1. woman-centric, focused on women; of or pertaining to feminocentrism
   • 1989, Joan E. DeJean, Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937, page 116

     As has often been remarked, French prose fiction of the Enlightenment is more often feminocentric than its English counterpart.

   • 1999, Ronald Hutton, The Royalist war effort, 1642-1646, page 145

     The radical absence of women's experience — and, thus, of the actual feminine — from the ostensibly feminocentric terms of Plato's erotic doctrine should warn us not to interpret Plato's strategy simplistically […]

Related terms

• 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