androcentrism
Americannoun
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“At best, it is a snapshot of a language in a given moment, from a given perspective. Dictionary makers bring personal, social and professional ideologies to their projects. Historically, a great many English dictionaries had strong Christian perspectives … often with strong doses of misogyny, androcentrism, racism, Anglocentrism, homophobia and so on.”
From The Guardian
Skogstrand asserts that androcentrism in archaeology does all human sexes a disservice, arguing that “The fact that men are representing the entire prehistoric society is not simply because women are ignored; it is mainly because men are not gendered.”
From The Guardian
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