androcentrismn.
/ˌandrə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌændroʊˈsɛnˌtrɪzəm/, /ˌændrəˈsɛnˌtrɪzəm/ Primary or exclusive focus on men as opposed to women; androcentric behaviour or attitudes.
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1964 Amer. Anthropologist 66 1431 He shows how the fact of androcentrism is the lever which directs the moving of the social existence.
1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Nov. 1399/5 Whatever Professor Mascall says, androcentrism of the kind he expresses is now no more morally tolerable than racial discrimination or slavery.
1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus viii. 131 [She] has taken up the cudgels against androcentrism in evolutionary speculation..by showing that she can tell just as good an adaptive story from a female point of view.
2014 Church Times 28 Mar. 23/4 All three (male) authors appear indifferent to the androcentrism of the traditions they describe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).
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