Gynocriticism or gynocritics is the term coined in the seventies by Elaine Showalter to describe a new literary project intended to construct "a female framework for the analysis of women's literature".
By expanding the historical study of women writers as a distinct literary tradition, gynocritics sought to develop new models based on the study of female experience to replace male models of literary creation, and so "map the territory"[1] left unexplored in earlier literary criticisms.
- ^ Quoted in J. Childers ed., The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (1995) p. 129
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