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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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The biggest challenge to Sharp's interpretation and deployment of Spinoza is the latter's anthropocentrism and androcentrism.
Nonetheless, I am reminded of a remark that if science is androcentric, then this is the best endorsement for androcentrism that one can find.
Feminism is the antithesis of patriarchy, but not of androcentrism, despite the fact that this meaning is widely accepted.
Unfortunately, as Farquhar points out, these texts also normalize androcentrism.
They maintain that androcentrism as seen in traditional power-wielding patriarchal society is responsible for the striving to dominate nature.
Feminism addresses androcentrism, ecocriticism addresses anthropocentrism, and feminist ecocriticism addresses both together.

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