gynarchalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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gynarchal (not comparable)

1. (rare) gynarchic, of or related to gynarchy.
   • 1976, Xenia S. Williams, “The Power of History...or History Is Written by the Powerful”, in Dave Peterson, Johnathan Cross, Lyn Rosen, editors, A Gay Person's Guide to New England, 2 edition:

     In some parts of Africa, Asia, and South America, amazon cultures still existed during the Middle Ages, such as that ruled by Queen Nzingha in Angola, who led her amazon army against the Portuguese in a series of wars during the first half of the seventeenth century. In Dahomey, also in traditionally gynarchal West Africa, the army was made up of amazons even through the nineteenth century.