Heteropatriarchy: Meaning, Gender Power, and Sexual Norms
Heteropatriarchy is a social system that combines male dominance with expectations that heterosexual relationships and traditional gender roles are the norm.
Heteropatriarchy is a social system that combines male dominance with expectations that heterosexual relationships and traditional gender roles are the norm.
Androcentrism centers men and male experience as the human standard, often marginalizing other genders in language, research, history, work, and sexuality.
Misogyny can appear as open hatred, sexual double standards, controlling behavior, or systems that punish women and femininity.