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androcentricity

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androcentricity [ˌændrəʊsɛnˈtrɪsɪtɪ] Nandrocentrismo m


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The necessity of overcoming linguistic androcentricity of discourse is being gradually recognized by researchers of Slavic languages: Polish (Koniuszaniec & Blaszkowska, 2001), Czech (Cmejrkova, 2001), Russian (Doleshal, 2001; Denisova, 2002), Ukrainian (Tolstokorova, 2002, 2004), and other Central Eastern European languages, such as Lithuanian (Kaledaite, 1995), Romanian (Maurice, 2001 ; Miroiu, 1998).
While concurring with Falk on the problem of the excessive maleness or androcentricity of traditional Jewish Godlanguage, feminist theologian and halakhist Rachel Adler has argued that we need the notion of God as personal and transcendent Other in order to maintain the possibilities of relation, difference, reciprocity, and mutuality.
Given that issues of misogyny, androcentricity, and patriarchy affect sacred rhetoric, these critiques analyze how sermonic texts participate "in creating or sustaining oppressive theoethical values and sociopolitical practices.
 
 
 
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