Gynocentric Cultural Complex
A Gynocentric Cultural Complex consists of three central motives: 1. An emphasis on female vulnerability or victimhood, 2. chivalry and 3. courtly or romantic love conventions. It was birthed in the Middle Ages, becoming disseminated to mass culture and subsequently to much of the world today.[1][2][3][4]
A cultural complex refers to a significant configuration of culture traits that have major significance in the way people’s lives were lived. In sociology it is defined as a set of culture traits all unified and dominated by one essential trait; such as an industrial cultural complex, religious cultural complex, military cultural complex and so on. In each of these complexes we can identify a core factor – industry, religion, military – so we likewise we have core motives for the Gynocentric cultural complex: the triad of damsels, chivalry and courtly love.