genderquake
English edit
Etymology edit
gender + quake, coined by Naomi Wolf.
Noun edit
genderquake (plural genderquakes)
- A fundamental shift of power from men to women.
- 1998, Sadie Plant, Zeros + ones: digital women + the new technoculture:
- These regions have genderquakes of their own.
- 2003, Sara Delamont, Feminist Sociology:
- I have shown that the malestream has largely ignored a genderquake in sociology although a few men are very disturbed about it, and a larger minority of men are excited by it.
- 2008, Sara Lynn McKinnon, The Discursive Formation of Gender in Women's Gendered Claims to U.S. Asylum, page 6:
- I believe she is quite right about the systemic gender crisis it caused. While Wolf marks the hearing as a moment that killed patriarchy, I understand the genderquake to have had the following effects […]