androcentric

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Ancestor worship, that gross reversal of all natural law, is of wholly androcentric origin.

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  1. adjective Centered or focused on men, often to the neglect or exclusion of women: an androcentric view of history; an androcentric health-care system.

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  • I really was excited, during my childhood of androcentric Doctor-Dan-and-Nurse-Nancy storytelling, to read about a young GIRL who created important things like the first letter.
  • Maines posits that an androcentric model of heterosexual intercourse (penetration to the point of male orgasm) is so deeply entrenched in our society that female sexuality has been constructed historically to fit this model. —  The Young Turks
  • Ancestor worship, that gross reversal of all natural law, is of wholly androcentric origin. —  The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
  • In the blundering old church, still androcentric, there was a great to-do to carry out this doctrine, in elaborate symbolism. —  The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
  • What Veblen calls "the instinct of workmanship" grows on, slowly and irresistably; but the malign features of our industrial life are distinctively androcentric: the desire to get, of the hunter; interfering with the desire to give, of the mother; the desire to overcome an antagonist--originally masculine, interfering with the desire to serve and benefit--originally feminine Let the reader keep in mind that as human beings, men are able to over-live their masculine natures and do noble service to the world; also that as human beings they are today far more highly developed than women, and doing far more for the world. —  The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
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  1. Greek ανήρ (ἀνδρο-), a male, + κέντρον, center.
 

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/ændrəˈsɛntrɪk/
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