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What is androcentrism?

What is androcentrism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An ideological focus on males and men, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-males.
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They maintain that androcentrism as seen in traditional power-wielding patriarchal society is responsible for the striving to dominate nature.
Nonetheless, I am reminded of a remark that if science is androcentric, then this is the best endorsement for androcentrism that one can find.
Some years ago, a Canadian academic paper posited that, contrary to their wholesome image, animal stories actually reinforce racism, androcentrism and heteronormativity.
This approach, it is claimed, is mediated by the androcentrism of Otto's worldview, entrapped in issues of domination, atomicity, and submission.
If that's right, then we have the confusing circumstance in which a movement that once posed a radical challenge to capitalism's androcentrism is now serving to legitimate, even glamorize, wage labor.
Feminists criticize the misogyny of philosophers and the overt and covert sexism, androcentrism, and related forms of male bias in philosophy.

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