Heteropatriarchy

Heteropatriarchy (etymologically from hetero[sexuality] and patriarchy) is a socio-political system in which the male gender and the heterosexuality have primacy over other genders and over other sexual orientations.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Heterosexual men are not only given primacy over other gender and sexual minorities, but are also encouraged and rewarded in a heteropatriarchical society.^[6]

From the feminist point of view, the term patriarchy refers to the father as the power holder inside the family hierarchy, and therefore, women become subordinate to the power of men. With the emergence of queer theory around the 1980s and the 1990s and the questioning of the heteronormativity and the gender binary, this kind of domination is not only described in terms of sex or gender (the predominance of men over woman, or the masculine over the feminine) but also in terms of sexuality (the heteronormativity, or the heterosexuality above other sexual orientations and the cisgender over other identities).^[1][3][7] The term heteropatriarchy has evolved from the previous, less specific term 'patriarchy' to emphasize the formation of a man dominated society based upon the cultural processes of sexism/heterosexism.^[8]

See also

• Heterosexism
• Hegemonic masculinity
• Cishomonormativity
• Masculism
• Machismo
• Sexism
• Homophobia
• Gender role
• Transfeminism
• Queer theory
• Intersectionality
• Pink capitalism
• Androcentrism

References

1. (Spanish) ¿Ruptura o Continuidad?
2. (Spanish) La reproducción del enmarcado heteropatriarcal desde la praxis política lesbofeminista frente al amor y las relaciones erótico-afectivas no monogámicas.
3. Unpacking Hetero-Patriarchy: Tracing the Conflation of Sex, Gender & Sexual Orientation to Its Origins.
4. De la cama a la calle: perspectivas teóricas lésbico-feministas (PDF) (in Spanish). Brecha Lésbica. 2006. p. 83. ISBN 978-958-9307-61-8.
5. (Spanish) La persistencia del heteropatriarcado.
6. Pierceson, Jason (2016). Sexual Minorities And Politics. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 9. ISBN 9781442227682.
7. Jeffreys, Sheila (1993). The Lesbian Heresy: A Feminist Perspective on the Lesbian Sexual Revolution. Spinifex Press. p. 208. ISBN 1 875559 17 5.
8. Glick, Peter (Feb 2001). "An ambivalent alliance: Hostile and benevolent sexism as complementary justifications for gender inequality.". American Psychologist. 56 (2): 109–118. Retrieved 26 September 2016.