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femicentric en · ADJ

Meanings

1. woman-centric; focusing on women or pertaining to a focus on women (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such focus is misandric)
   • The femicentric nature of the family in South Africa, hinging as it does on women, reflects both the strength and weakness of the institution. 2008 Jannie Hugo, Lucie Allan, Doctors for tomorrow: family medicine in South Africa, page 4
   • REVELATIONS The Linguistic Turn With the repetition of situated, equally parochial identities — Afrocentric, homocentric, Islamic, femicentric, and so on 1997, Thomas Robbins, Millennium, messiahs, and mayhem: contemporary apocalyptic movements, page 66
   • It is an order which is ‘femi-centric’ — which reflects the distinctiveness of female roles and responsibilities. 1986, International Sociological Association. Biography and Society Research Committee, Oral History Society (Great Britain), Life Stores, Issue 2

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Relateds

feminist · feminacentric · feminocentric