misogyny
nounUK /mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/ · US /mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
Etymology From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía) and μισογύνης (misogúnēs, “woman hater”), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”). By surface analysis, miso- + -gyny.
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Usually Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.
- Although she argues against a simplistic conflation of types of prejudice, she suggests that misogyny is typically present in both narcissistic and obsessive forms of anti-Semitic prejudice.1999, Joanne Marie Greer, David O. Moberg, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, →ISBN, page 29:
- His misogyny, like that of his predecessors, is more than prejudice; […]1999, Ethel Spector Person, The Sexual Century, →ISBN, page 84:
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- […] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: […]2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
- This ontological symbiosis also explains his misogyny. By envying Sue, as the man he cannot become, he projects his self-loathing onto her, trying to diminish what he actually admires.2005, Jeff Johnson, William Inge And The Subversion Of Gender, →ISBN, page 122:
- […] I have always found it hard that Hamlet, a character that I love and admire, is guilty of a puerile misogyny and, perhaps, more worryingly, of the unnecessary deaths of his old friends from university, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. When I played him, I could find reasons for the misogyny but half-ignored the murders.2014 April 12, Simon Russell Beale, “Why Shakespeare always says something new: As the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth approaches, the great Shakespearean actor Simon Russell Beale explains his secrets [print version: The king and I]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, archived from the original on 16 May 2017, page R7:
- Synonyms
- misogynism
- Antonyms
- philogyny
- Derived terms
- antimisogyny, anti-misogyny, misogynic, misogynist, misogynistic, misogynistically, misogynize, misogynoir, neo-misogyny, transmisogynoir, transmisogyny
- Related terms
- lesbophobia, sexism
- Coordinate terms
- misandry