According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. Phallocentric means "centered on men or on a male viewpoint, especially one held to entail the domination of women by men." In doing a little research online, I found that according to most thesaurus' there is no specific word that means the opposite of phallocentric. The only word that came close I found on wiktionary; gynocentrism meaning an "ideological focus on females, an issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-females." Now, this definition can be applied almost exactly to the ideals of Lysistrata.
Affected by war the woman take a gynocentric stand point and use their female persuasion to end the Peloponnesian war. Though the legend may not be true it is a good example of a possibly made up word, gynocentrism.
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