genderquake
nounEtymology From gender + quake, coined by Naomi Wolf.
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A fundamental shift of power from men to women.
- These regions have genderquakes of their own.1998, Sadie Plant, Zeros + ones: digital women + the new technoculture:
- I have shown that the malestream has largely ignored a genderquake in sociology although a few men are very disturbed about it, and a larger minority of men are excited by it.2003, Sara Delamont, Feminist Sociology:
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- I believe she is quite right about the systemic gender crisis it caused. While Wolf marks the hearing as a moment that killed patriarchy, I understand the genderquake to have had the following effects[…]2008, Sara Lynn McKinnon, The Discursive Formation of Gender in Women's Gendered Claims to U.S. Asylum, page 6: