cisheteropatriarchy

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English

Etymology

From cis- +‎ hetero- +‎ patriarchy.

Pronunciation

Noun

cisheteropatriarchy (countable and uncountable, plural cisheteropatriarchies)

  1. 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.

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