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cisheteropatriarchies

cisheteropatriarchies is the plural of cisheteropatriarchy.

Meaning of cisheteropatriarchy

Noun

cisheteropatriarchy (countable and uncountable, plural cisheteropatriarchies)

  1. The dominance of cisgender heterosexual males in society.
    • 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...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

Questions about cisheteropatriarchies

What is cisheteropatriarchies the plural of?
Cisheteropatriarchies is the plural of cisheteropatriarchy.

Words near cisheteropatriarchies in the dictionary

  1. cishet
  2. cishetero
  3. cisheteronormative
  4. cisheteronormativity
  5. cisheteropatriarchal
  6. cisheteropatriarchies
  7. cisheteropatriarchy
  8. cisheterosexual
  9. cishets
  10. cishon
  11. cishons

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