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misogyny

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Etymology

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FromAncient Greekμισογυνία(misogunía) andμισογύνης(misogúnēs,“woman hater”), fromμισέω(miséō,“I hate”) +γυνή(gunḗ,“woman”). Bysurface analysis,miso- +‎-gyny.

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Noun

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misogyny (usuallyuncountable,pluralmisogynies)

  1. Hatred of,contempt for, orprejudice againstwomen.
    • 1999, Joanne Marie Greer, David O. Moberg,Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion,→ISBN, page29:
      Although she argues against a simplistic conflation of types of prejudice, she suggests thatmisogyny is typically present in both narcissistic and obsessive forms of anti-Semitic prejudice.
    • 1999, Ethel Spector Person,The Sexual Century,→ISBN, page84:
      Hismisogyny, like that of his predecessors, is more than prejudice;[…]
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen,The Corrections:
      […] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to allmisogynies:[…]
    • 2005, Jeff Johnson,William Inge And The Subversion Of Gender,→ISBN, page122:
      This ontological symbiosis also explains hismisogyny. By envying Sue, as the man he cannot become, he projects his self-loathing onto her, trying to diminish what he actually admires.
    • 2006, Jack Holland,Misogyny: the world's oldest prejudice,→ISBN:
    • 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]”, inThe Daily Telegraph (Review)‎[1], London, page R7:
      […] I have always found it hard thatHamlet, a character that I love and admire, is guilty of a puerilemisogyny 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 themisogyny but half-ignored the murders.

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  • A related concept isgynophobia, the fear of women (or femininity), but not necessarily hatred of them.

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Translations

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hatred or contempt for women

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