gynomania

English

Etymology

gyno- +‎ -mania

Noun

gynomania

1. (obsolete) Synonym of transvestism.
   • 1877, Scientific American - Volume 36; Volume 36, page 41:

     The case of gynomania above cited has never before been published, but we can vouch for its truth: and we fear that it is not an isolated case.

   • 1881, Gaillard's Medical Journal - Volume 31, page 368:

     Sometimes the disease takes the form of sexual excitement being produced in a man by wearing articles of female attire. This has been called "gynomania."

   • 1899, Charles Féré, The Pathology of emotions, page 393:

     In sensual love (cytheromania, gynomania, andromania, satyriasis, nymphomania) one can find the same phenomenon of psychological synecdoche.

   • 1900, Frederic Carrel, The Realization of Justin Moran, page 35:

     Baron de Flach, a retired Viennese financier, had contrived to insinuate himself into that land of armorial bearings by purchasing the house of the descendant of a Crusader, ruined by gambling and gynomania.

   • 1919, George Saintsbury, A History of the French Novel: From the Beginning to the Close of the 19th Century:

     The curious misogyny which chequered Maupassant's gynomania seems to have tried hard to express itself in her portrait.

   • 1991 Autumn, Linda Susan Beard, “Bessie Head's Syncretic Fictions: The Reconceptualization of Power and the Recovery of the Ordinary”, in Modern Fiction Studies, volume 37, number 3:

     In place of phallocentrism, the narratives preoccupy us with the gynomania of brown Sello's Medusa.