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Amazonism en · NOUN

Etymology

From Amazon + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Domination of society by women; an extreme matriarchal system.
    • In reaction against Amazonism, the next era of human society sees the development of a new form of marriage under male hegemony. 2004, Gérald Gaillard, The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists, page 10: