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Studies of male sexual coercion and female resistance in nonhuman primates (for example, chimpanzees [88] [89]) suggest that sexual conflicts of interest underlying the patriarchy precede the emergence of the human species. [90] However, the extent of male power over females varies greatly across different primate species. [90]
Androcracy is a form of government in which the government rulers are male. The males, especially fathers, have the central roles of political leadership, moral authority, and control of property. It is also sometimes called a phallocracy or andrarchy or an androcentric or phallocratic society.
Androcentrism was a consequence of human development in society, "based on an irrational glorification of the trivial male fertilizing function, had “resulted in arresting the development of half the world.” [9] Therefore, androcentrism can be understood as a societal fixation on masculinity from which all things originate.
Male dominance may refer to: Male dominance (BDSM) Male privilege, a system of advantages available to men on the basis of sex; Patriarchy, a system of social ...
The most salient example of this approach in contemporary European and American society is the dominance of heterosexual men and the subordination of homosexual men. [1] [3] This was manifested in political and cultural exclusion, legal violence, street violence, and economic discrimination. [4]
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In feminist theory, heteropatriarchy (etymologically from heterosexual and patriarchy) or cisheteropatriarchy, is a social construct where (primarily) cisgender (same gender as identified at birth) and heterosexual males have authority over other cisgender males, females, and people with other sexual orientations and gender identities.
Trump's executive order declares sex as "an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female" and states that "gender identity" cannot be included in the definition of ...