First, I wanted agradaceros the avalanche of inquiries that I received ... How exciting! I have really wanted to answer you as best I can, so you'll have a little patience for you to do my research and I can respond with a little knowledge ... I begin with two queries that I made yesterday Misslucifer:
always struck me that there are many words referring to men who do not exist for women and I thought it unfair, but consistent with the story (the man always on top) . Unfortunately, now only I can think of, which is the cause of my query. Misogyny . Why there is no equivalent on the contrary, ie, a feeling of contempt for men by of women? I tried to look it up some possibilities ( misandry or misoandria seemed the most logical) but nothing.When I read it, my first thought was: lesbianism! ;)
I would make this joke because I myself am a lesbian, so no one take this wrong ... (Still, take this opportunity to point out that the subject was sometimes tend to think that being a lesbian necessarily mean you do not like men, which indicates a remarkable poverty of thought: "I like it, ergo I do not like that," as if they were mutually exclusive opposites.)
Returning to the topic at hand Now, actually there is no equivalent opposite ... or have not collected the dictionaries. I think, as you well say, that is due to historical reasons. For some reason, did not create that word ... or has not been necessary to create it. For what seems clear is that perhaps the word has not been created, but the "feeling of contempt towards men by women," it must have existed.
In this sense, it strikes me that you may not have been created because there has been theorized on the subject. That is, at least since Aristotle (that great philosopher), the misogyny some men have thought, philosophizing and theorizing much and to do that, you need a word that collect the concept. Since then we'll talk of marriage, we must not forget that there misogamy , ie aversion to marriage, which some men have historically gone hand of misogyny.
However, the animosity toward men has not been - say - philosophical development. In my opinion, this is not negative. The less hatred, the better. But I think detrimental missing a word for a concept that at some point we need. So, if you need a word, believe it! In this case, it is quite easy. Because the fact that a word is not in the dictionary does not mean that word does not exist. If a word formed or created from the rules of derivation or composition of the language itself, is a possible word, good and correct, no discussion possible.
Your intuition is good: the best option in this case is misoandria .
miso-: Form default from the Greek word commitments, which means hatred.
-andria : Greek suffix Element aner, andros , male. For example, polyandry .
could also be androfobia , but would miss the formal parallelism misogyny.
To tackle this issue as I see you have a general interest on the relationship between androcentric and language, I recommend the books of Eulàlia Lledó, eminent feminist philologist. I do not know if it will be easy to find and I guess it also depends on where you are you (how much we miss Amazon Spain!). On the other hand, I think that some of his books are written in Catalan, but must have translations. Let's see what you find.
Let your second query:
And all this has happened to me other questions ... Heritage / marriage. I recently read somewhere (I thought it was a very reliable source) that both words were used originally to define practices relating to the protection of property belonging to the family her father and mother respectively. On the one hand, it seems possible (if we consider that heritage comes from pater and marriage of mater) but on the other, not because heritage could come of pater or patres. And I think Latin patres refers to both parents.
Let's start with the etymologies. The original meaning of the two words in Latin ( patrimonium , matrimonium ) is, respectively, inherited from the father and mother's inheritance. As to whether pater,-tris served for both the father and mother, is not it. The word he did refer to both figures was parens, "NTIS:
parens," NTIS : the parent , present participle of parere (birth, procreation), initially applied to the parent and mothers alike, mostly in the plural, jointly, then passed to appoint relatives ( relatives).
In contrast, the English word Parents itself has maintained the original meaning.
That said, I think it is very likely that the two words have their origin in the distinction between properties that are inherited through his mother and they came by the father. It is a matter of historical anthropology ... and I did not get much:) But I can tell you that this morning I consulted with my dear personal anthropologist, Marti, and he has confirmed that this is more than likely be the case.
But I do not seem so interesting origin and meaning what they have done. What
is the legacy of his father?
heritage: 1. Joint property acquired by inheritance from someone familiar. 2. Joint goods from someone, whatever their origin. 3. Joint goods of artistic, historic or cultural in a country or region subject to a special legal regime.
And what we get from the mother?
marriage Union of a man and a woman, legalized with appropriate ceremonies and formalities established religious or civil, to form a family. It is one of the sacraments of the Church.
I'm not going to get into the quality of the definitions (they are Mary Miller) and the fact that, fortunately, what he says about marriage in Spain is no longer valid.
I want to focus on the fact that we inherit from the father are real, whether physical or intellectual, and instead what we get from the mother is a marriage, a relationship, which is also sacred. Mind you, I'm not saying it well in reality (I assure you that my experience with my father and my mother does not correspond at all with that logic). What I want is to point out how interesting it is to see how those meanings have evolved metaphorically in our culture are the inheritance of properties, the inheritance of the mother is a sacred relationship.
I do not know if valoraréis as being sexist, if you will believe that this semantic evolution belittles women ... o men? In any case, makes one wonder. A lot. No?
parens," NTIS : the parent , present participle of parere (birth, procreation), initially applied to the parent and mothers alike, mostly in the plural, jointly, then passed to appoint relatives ( relatives).
In contrast, the English word Parents itself has maintained the original meaning.
That said, I think it is very likely that the two words have their origin in the distinction between properties that are inherited through his mother and they came by the father. It is a matter of historical anthropology ... and I did not get much:) But I can tell you that this morning I consulted with my dear personal anthropologist, Marti, and he has confirmed that this is more than likely be the case.
But I do not seem so interesting origin and meaning what they have done. What
is the legacy of his father?
heritage: 1. Joint property acquired by inheritance from someone familiar. 2. Joint goods from someone, whatever their origin. 3. Joint goods of artistic, historic or cultural in a country or region subject to a special legal regime.
And what we get from the mother?
marriage Union of a man and a woman, legalized with appropriate ceremonies and formalities established religious or civil, to form a family. It is one of the sacraments of the Church.
I'm not going to get into the quality of the definitions (they are Mary Miller) and the fact that, fortunately, what he says about marriage in Spain is no longer valid.
I want to focus on the fact that we inherit from the father are real, whether physical or intellectual, and instead what we get from the mother is a marriage, a relationship, which is also sacred. Mind you, I'm not saying it well in reality (I assure you that my experience with my father and my mother does not correspond at all with that logic). What I want is to point out how interesting it is to see how those meanings have evolved metaphorically in our culture are the inheritance of properties, the inheritance of the mother is a sacred relationship.
I do not know if valoraréis as being sexist, if you will believe that this semantic evolution belittles women ... o men? In any case, makes one wonder. A lot. No?
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