Definition of "gyneocracy" []

• Alternative form of gynecocracy. (noun)

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• "The stang is of Saxon origin, and is practised in Lancashire, Cumberland, and Westmoreland, for the purpose of exposing a kind of gyneocracy, or, the wife wearing the galligaskins."
• "The mother-right and gyneocracy among the Iroquois here plainly indicated is not overdrawn."
• "Bachofen was the first to discuss under the name of gyneocracy and mother-right."