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Androcentrism (Ancient Greek, ἀνήρ, "man, male" [1]) is the practice, conscious or otherwise, of placing a masculine point of view at the center of one's world view, culture, and history, thereby culturally marginalizing femininity.
The opposite of androcracy is gynocracy, or rule by women.It is related to but not synonymous with matriarchy.Evidence indicating historical gynocracies survives mostly in mythology and in some archaeological records, although it is disputed by some authors, like Cynthia Eller in her book The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory.
Allen writes that Gilman used masculism to refer to the opposition of misogynist men to women's rights and, more broadly, to describe "men's collective political and cultural actions on behalf of their own sex", [14] or what Allen calls the "sexual politics of androcentric cultural discourses". [15]
The Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) community describes themselves as a backlash against the "misandry of gynocentrism". [11] [12] According to University of Massachusetts philosopher Christa Hodapp, in modern men's movements gynocentrism is described as a continuation of the courtly love conventions of medieval times, wherein women were valued as a quasi-aristocratic class, and males were ...
Where a woman takes on the counterdependent position, it may take on the attributes of a false self or androcentric persona. [ 13 ] The apparently independent behavior of the counterdependent can act as a powerful lure for the co-dependent [ 14 ] – though once a couple has formed the two partners – codependent / counterdependent – are ...
The principle of male as norm holds that grammatical and lexical devices such as the use of the suffix-ess (as in actress) specifically indicating the female form, the use of man to mean "human", and similar means strengthen the perceptions that the male category is the norm, and that corresponding female categories are derivations and thus less important.
Anthropocentrism (/ ˌ æ n θ r oʊ p oʊ ˈ s ɛ n t r ɪ z əm /; [1] from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos) 'human' and κέντρον (kéntron) 'center') is the belief that human beings are the central or most important entity on the planet. [2]
From a postcolonial perspective, however, such theoretical debates revealed the irrelevance of first-world feminists, with their phallocentric preoccupations, to the ordinary life of the subaltern woman in the Third World; [15] and third-wave feminism, with its concern for the marginalized, the particular, and for intersectionality, has also broadly seen the theoreticism and essentialism of ...