androcentric

Examples

• All

• They're intensely androcentric.

  Academic text (1991)

• Building on established diasporic associations whose membership is determined by patrilineal descent, this organization reinforces androcentric biases toward male participation and male dominance in formal spheres of diasporic politics.

  Academic text (2005)

• The inclusion of information of this quality provides a less androcentric and Eurocentric view of the history of the world.

  Academic text (1994)

• The androcentric character of the Scriptures seems evident.

  Academic text (2005)

• Androcentric monotheistic representations, as in Judaism and Christianity, are found only among Indian Muslims.

  Academic text (1990)

• For the past decade or so, feminist critics of scientific inquiry have been showing that such dichotomizing underlies the traditions of androcentric and Eurocentric thought.

  Academic text (1991)

• What is at issue is not a few occasional masculine texts, but an androcentric and patriarchal bias that pervades the text from one end to the other.

  Academic text (2005)

• But so many of the myths on which Western culture is based are androcentric, sexist, and misogynist—and therefore perpetuate destructive ideas.

  Fiction book (1997)

• After many years, we realized that they might be different, so we designed research that focused specifically on them, but our methods still were androcentric and our questions still were based on male views (Bell, 1988; Shakeshaft 1987 cited by Skrla, 2000).

  Academic text (2008)

• The researchers criticized the androcentric approach that overlooked women's contributions to science.

How Male-Centered

patriarchal

• Literature

36 7.0

sexist

• Offensive

137 5.8

androcentric

1 8.6

gendered

5 4.8

Surface Forms

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Etymology