The work is "perhaps the best known analysis of gynecocracy" and Knox was "the most notorious" writer on the subject.

The opposite of androcracy is gynecocracy, sometimes referred to as gynocracy, or rule by women.

It is also sometimes called a gynarchy, a gynocracy, a gynecocracy, or a gynocentric society.

But their real purpose is to locate the submerged city of Vineta, "offshore from the mouth of the Peene," once ruled by a gynecocracy.

Gynecocracy is defined by Scalingi as "government by women", similar to dictionary definitions (one dictionary adding 'women's social supremacy' to the governing role).

Gynecocracy, gynaecocracy, gynocracy, gyneocracy, and gynarchy generally mean 'government by women over women and men'.

"By the end of [Queen] Elizabeth's reign, gynecocracy was a fait accompli", according to historian Paula Louise Scalingi.

Yet despite considerable evidence that contradicts the story of a prelapsarian gynecocracy, and a glaring lack of evidence to support it, many people, according to Cynthia Eller, continue to subscribe to it.

In the seemingly male-dominated and misogynistic world of rap, Kim and her followers constitute a little gynecocracy, a power clique that has all the men - except for Londell, Kim's worldly wise lawyer - a little intimidated.

The following excerpts from Lewis Morgan's "Ancient Society" will explain the use of the terms: "In a work of vast research, Bachofen has collected and discussed the evidence of female authority, mother-right, and of female rule, gynecocracy."

Gynecocracy: A Narrative of the Adventures and Psychological Experiences of Julian Robinson is a Victorian pornographic novel in the form of an autobiography by the pseudonymous "Viscount Ladywood", in three volumes, published in 1893.

While these words all share that principal meaning, they differ a little in their additional meanings, so that gynecocracy also means 'women's social supremacy', gynaecocracy also means 'government by one woman', 'female dominance', and, derogatorily, 'petticoat government', and gynocracy also means 'women as the ruling class'.