Vaginocentrism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Vaginocentrism is a noun meaning Focus on a female point of view.
Meaning
Focus on a female point of view.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include feminocentrism, phallocentrism, gynocentrism, vaginocracy, androcentrism, phallogocentrism.
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