gyn/ecologyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

gyn/ecology (plural gyn/ecologies)

1. (rare) Feminist form of gynecology.
   • 2025 September 26, Sandhya Shetty, Imperial Pharmakon: Writing and Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 404:

     Within colonial gyn/ecology, America became a crucial site hospitable to natality, to the promise of a new kind of human, namely, "the high-caste lady doctor."

2. (feminism, rare) Relationships between women, and the study thereof.
   • 1991, Seminar:

     To study the gyn/ecology of these novelists is to understand that these are women in the process of becoming.

   • 2023 January 30, Elisabeth Angel-Perez, Aloysia Rousseau, The New Wave of British Women Playwrights: 2008 – 2021, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 40:

     Despite the dark undertones of Maryland, the chapter argues that through the plays 'exploration of gyn/ecologies in women's relationships and beyond, wider ecologies of care and solidarity may be "dis-cover [ed] [and] de-velop[ed]" […]

別の表記

• gynaecology (Commonwealth)
• gynæcology (dated)

語源

From French gynécologie, from Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) + -logie (“-logy”). Replaced earlier gyniatrics.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌɡaɪnɪˈkɒlədʒi/, /ˌdʒaɪnɪˈkɒlədʒi/ (archaic)
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌɡaɪnəˈkɑləd͡ʒi/, /ˌd͡ʒaɪnəˈkɑləd͡ʒi/ (archaic)

名詞

gynecology (uncountable)

1. (American spelling) The study of, or the branch of medicine specializing in, the medical problems of women, especially disorders of the reproductive organs.

   Coordinate term: obstetrics

等位語

• andrology

派生語

関連する語

• obstetrician-gynecologist