Dictionary

cisheteropatriarchy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌsɪsˌhɛtəɹəˈpeɪtɹiɑɹki/ (General-American)

Etymology

From cis- + hetero- + patriarchy.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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 gender binary. 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:

Forms

Relateds

cisheteropatriarchal

Translations (3)

ru цисгетеропатриарха́т (the dominance of cisgender heterosexual men) · fr cis-hétéro-patriarcat (the dominance of cisgender heterosexual men) · fr hétéro-cis-patriarcat (the dominance of cisgender heterosexual men)