vaginocentrism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In the place of the paradoxical phallocentrism Gather offers in that novel, the epilogue of Sapphim and the Slave Girl posits a vaginocentrism that refutes as strongly as phallocentrism the androgynous sexuality posited by Phyllis Robinson as the outcome of Cather's concern with sexuality."
- "The first option would result in replacing phallocentrism with vaginocentrism, an option that neither she nor Derrida advocates."
- "This orientation is the opposite of phallocentrism and may be called vaginocentrism. In brief, Daoism provides a useful counterweight to Western logocentrism, phallocentrism, and the metaphysics of presence."
Etymology
From vagino- + -centrism.