ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GYNAECEUM
From Latin: women's apartments, from Greek gunaikeion, from gunē a woman.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GYNAECEUM»
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gynaeceum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gynaeceum and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Gramineae: A Study of Cereal, Bamboo and Grass
Details of gynaeceum. A and B, Stipa pennata L. A i-A 5, sections from a
transverse series from below upwards through a gynaeceum (x 77 circa) from
ovary to styles. B, transverse section of a flower through anthers and styles,
lemma omitted ...
2
Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization
These architectural spaces are defined by what they contain — the ritual
consumption of cheese, cakes, and other sugary confections in the Gynaeceum
and the coffee that Julie serves only to her special intimates in the Salon. The
spaces are ...
3
Gynaeceum Daniae Litteratum, Feminis Danorum, Eruditione Vel ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Albert Lauridsen Thura, 2011
4
Physiology of Angiosperms
The gynaeceum is developed at the apex of the receptacle; the stamens, petals,
and sepals, are inserted, in order, on the side of receptacle below the
gynaeceum. This is to hypogynous arrangement. Suppose now that the
receptacle is not ...
5
The Gamineae A Study of Cereal, Bamboo, and Grass
ST1PA PEN NATAL (AjjB) posterror project1on (verij ^ogns, (lower) ' glume Fig.
68. Details of gynaeceum. A and B, Stipa pennata L. A 1-A 5, sections from a
transverse series from below upwards through a gynaeceum (x 77 circa) from
ovary ...
6
Forgetful of Their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society, Ca. ...
... reflected the values of the hierarchically ordered and gender-based religious
and secular society of the Middle Ages. Celestial prominence clearly had a "this-
worldly" or terrestrial 404 EPILOGUE EPILOGUE The Celestial Gynaeceum.
Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, 1998
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From Darwin to Weil: Women as Transmitters of Ideas
Such a list was called 'gynaeceum', after the Greek word for women's room. The
genre was popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Most of the lists
were in Latin and were international. As Marianne Alenius states, it was not yet ...
8
Floral Morphology: A New Outlook with Special Reference to ...
Six residual vascular strands arranged in two triplets serve the gynaeceum as in
Albizzia and Leuctena (see above), but in Acacia the centre bundle of the dorsal
triplet is scarcely as strongly developed as the other two. As a result the ovary ...
Edith Rebecca Saunders, 1940
9
The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates: Volume 3. Overal ...
A perfect flower contains androeceum and gynaeceum, an imperfect flower either
one but not both.243 The flower diagrams indicate the configuration of organs by
concentric circles, the corolla leaves being usually marked with a median ...
Theodora never tired of the view from the Gynaeceum, the women's quarters of
the Great Palace. It was not so much the scenery beyond—though the sight of the
great city was magnificent—as it was the constant reminder of her own power.
David Drake, Eric Flint, 1998
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GYNAECEUM»
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gynaeceum is used in the context of the following news items.
This Day in Jewish History / Roman emperor cracks down hard on …
... Jews were specifically prohibited from marrying Christian women who had been working in imperial weaving factories (called gynaeceum). «Haaretz, Aug 14»
Marxism and Feminism
... “the first servant” in the gynaeceum or in the feudal manor whilst their husband was totally “idle”, devoting his time to politics, war or hunting, ... «International Viewpoint, Sep 10»
