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  Encyclopedia: Androcentrism
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Androcentrism (Greek ανδρο, andro-, "man, male", χεντρον, kentron, "center") is the practice, conscious or otherwise, of placing male human beings or the masculine point of view at the center of one's view of the world and its culture and history.
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Androcentrism   (94 words)

  
 Analytic Feminism
Feminists criticize the misogyny of philosophers and the overt and covert sexism, androcentrism, and related forms of male bias in philosophy.
Analytic feminism holds that the best way to counter sexism and androcentrism is through forming a clear conception of and pursuing truth, logical consistency, objectivity, rationality, justice, and the good while recognizing that these notions have often been perverted by androcentrism throughout the history of philosophy….
Duran's examples of traits that have been seen as androcentric include, “analysis in terms of logically necessary and sufficient conditions, lack of allusion to descriptively adequate models, the importance of counterexampling, putative universalization of the conditions, and so forth” (1990, 44).
plato.stanford.edu /entries/femapproach-analytic   (11956 words)

  
 Thealogy at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Nor need the dominant androcentrism be replaced with gynocentrism; if minority subcultures practice either they are unlikely to take over human history.
Rather than the distinctly pejorative meaning androcentrism has acquired in feminist academia, it could just indicate looking (at the divine) with male eyes.
The trouble is not androcentrism or gynocentrism, but hegemony (Gramsci), the unsaid, taken for granted that exerts overwhelming reality control.
wiki.tatet.com /Thealogy.html   (2090 words)

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