Meanings
plural cisheteropatriarchies
- countableuncountableThe dominance of cisgender heterosexual males in society.
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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
Origin
Translations
French cis-hétéro-patriarcat, hétéro-cis-patriarcat
- cis-hétéro-patriarcatthe dominance of cisgender heterosexual men
- hétéro-cis-patriarcatthe dominance of cisgender heterosexual men
Russian цисгетеропатриарха́т
- цисгетеропатриарха́т (cisgeteropatriarxát)the dominance of cisgender heterosexual men
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cisheteropatriarchy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cisheteropatriarchy
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