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English
Etymology
From cis- + hetero- + patriarchy.
Pronunciation
Noun
cisheteropatriarchy (countable and uncountable, plural cisheteropatriarchies)
- The dominance of cisgender heterosexual males in society.
2020, H. Samy Alim, Jooyoung Lee, Lauren Mason Carris, Quentin E. Williams, “Language, Race, and the (Trans)Formation of Cisheteropatriarchy”, in The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race:These hegemonic practices reconstitute social divisions that benefit cisheteropatriarchy, an ideological system that naturalizes normative views of what it means to “look” and “act” like a “straight” man and marginalizes women, femininity, and all gender non-conforming bodies that challenge the gender binary.
Translations
the dominance of cisgender heterosexual men