Genderquakeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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genderquake (複数形 genderquakes)

1. 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 […]