vaginocentrism

English

Etymology

From vagino- +‎ -centrism.

Noun

vaginocentrism (uncountable)

1. Focus on a female point of view.
   • 1988, Robert James Nelson, Willa Cather and France: In Search of the Lost Language, page 138:

     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.

   • 2013, Susan J. Hekman, Gender and Knowledge: Elements of a Postmodern Feminism:

     The first option would result in replacing phallocentrism with vaginocentrism, an option that neither she nor Derrida advocates.

   • 2014, James J.Y. Liu, Language-Paradox-Poetics: A Chinese Perspective, page 21:

     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.