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gynecide
gynecide
English
Noun
gynecide (uncountable)
- The killing of females, especially female infants. [from 20th c.]
- 1987, Christine Overall, Ethics and Human Reproduction, Allen & Unwin 1989, p. 31:
- The technology of sex preselection enables people, particularly men, to act on their biases against women; it is not an exaggeration to regard the potential results as a form of gynecide – that is, a wrongful form of sexual discrimination that reduces the relative number of females.
- 1997, Amy Richlin, ‘Pliny's Brassiere’, in Roman Sexualities, Princeton 1997, p. 212:
- So though there is nothing here to indicate any widespread gynecide, there does seem to be an assumption that women will be trying to have male children.
- 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 509:
- The pressure to reduce these practices will almost certainly increase, if only because governments have finally done the demographic arithmetic and realized that gynecide today means unruly bachelors tomorrow […].
- 1987, Christine Overall, Ethics and Human Reproduction, Allen & Unwin 1989, p. 31: