gynaeolatry


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Noun1.gynaeolatry - the worship of women
gyneolatry, woman-worship
idolatry, veneration, cultism, devotion - religious zeal; the willingness to serve God
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Cash's expose of "gynaeolatry" constructs the Southern lady as "the South's Palladium....
An angel in the plantation: the economics of slavery and the politics of literary domesticity in Caroline Lee Hentz's 'The Planter's Northern Bride.'

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