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A.Word.A.Day--gynarchy Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio gynarchy (JIN-ar-kee, JYE-nar-, gye-) noun Government by women. [Gyn- woman + -archy, rule, government.] Here are a few more terms synonymous with today's word: gynecocracy, its variant, gynocracy, and matriarchy. -Anu "The exhibition `Julia Margaret Cameron's Women' could be faulted for the exclusivity of its focus on the female sex. ... Including Cameron's patriarchs would only have brought the law of the father back into this photographic gynarchy." Carol Armstrong, Julia Margaret Cameron's Women, Artforum, Mar 1999. This week's theme: feminine and masculine forms of words. X-Bonus Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-) [Bluebeard, 1987]

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