androcentric
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of androcentric
1900–05; andro- + -centric, on the model of ethnocentric ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Today, she believes, “If we can move from an androcentric, anthropocentric view to a sex-, gender-, and species-spanning perspective, then we can do good.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
The prefix “her” instead of “his” is used to disrupt the often androcentric nature of history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2019
Admires the way you take the individual problems of individual women, and by means of the individual problems lead these women into the larger view of life and into an understanding of the androcentric culture.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Some read the genderless world as androcentric, because the generic human being it affirmed had a rather masculine bent.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
They are obsessed by this dominant idea of sex; due clearly enough to the long period of male dominance—to our androcentric culture.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
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