Amazonism

noun

Amazonism

noun

Etymology From Amazon + -ism.

1

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:

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