femicentric

See also: femi-centric

English

Alternative forms

• femi-centric

Adjective

femicentric (comparative more femicentric, superlative most femicentric)

1. woman-centric; focusing on women or pertaining to a focus on women (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such focus is misandric)
   • 1986, International Sociological Association. Biography and Society Research Committee, Oral History Society (Great Britain), Life Stores, Issue 2

     It is an order which is ‘femi-centric’ — which reflects the distinctiveness of female roles and responsibilities.

   • 1997, Thomas Robbins, Millennium, messiahs, and mayhem: contemporary apocalyptic movements, page 66

     REVELATIONS The Linguistic Turn With the repetition of situated, equally parochial identities — Afrocentric, homocentric, Islamic, femicentric, and so on

   • 2008 Jannie Hugo, Lucie Allan, Doctors for tomorrow: family medicine in South Africa, page 4

     The femicentric nature of the family in South Africa, hinging as it does on women, reflects both the strength and weakness of the institution.

Related terms

• feminocentric, feminacentric
• feminist