gynecocide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"I suggest, therefore, that the "genocide" to which Irigaray refers is not the end of humanity, but the end of women, a gynecocide via the disappearance of sexual difference into the "masculine-neutral" that would be the ultimate triumph of the masculinist economy, the fulfillment of a masculinist dream of a world without women, and thus the ultimate triumph of the Phallus."

Regular formation from gyneco- + -cide.

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