In feminist theory, heteropatriarchy (etymologically from heterosexual and patriarchy) or cisheteropatriarchy, is a socio-political system where (primarily) cisgender males and heterosexuals have authority over cisgender females and over other sexual orientations and gender identities. It is a term that emphasizes that discrimination of women and LGBTQ people has the same sexist social principle.Unpacking Hetero-Patriarchy: Tracing the Conflation of Sex, Gender & Sexual Orientation to Its Origins. La persistencia del heteropatriarcado. In heteropatriarchal societies, it is commonly understood that cisgender heterosexual men generally occupy the highest positions of power in society, causing women (including transgender women), non-binary people, transgender men, and other LGBTQ people to experience the bulk of social oppression in relation to gender and sexuality. This idea is reinforced by unclear definitions of "gender", "sex", and "sexual orientation" in a cultural and legal context, as well as by gender norms, which serve to set social expectations associated with masculinity and femininity. Theory As a social system, heteropatriarchy perceives heterosexuality and patriarchy as normal while other configurations are considered abnormal. It then perpetuates an environment of oppression and inequality for racial and sexual minority groups.Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy. Feminist Formations. 2013. Heteropatriarchy is a facet of popular feminist analysis used to explain modern hierarchical social structure, which is dependent upon and includes the perspective of gender roles, based on a system of interlocking forces of power and oppression. It is commonly understood in this context  that men typically occupy the highest positions of power and women experience the bulk of social oppression. This system of socio-political dominance is  reinforced by gender norms, which ascribe traits of femininity and masculinity to men and women; whereby cisgender heterosexual men are favored and are routinely remunerated for presenting masculine traits . Conversely, women or people who display traits deemed feminine receive less societal privilege. Historically this has manifested in economic disadvantages such as unequal pay, or the inability for women to own land. The practice of legal (and social) culture of relegating gender to the realm of "women's issues" and sexual orientation to the realm of "sexual minorities' issues” is fundamental to  a heteropatriarchal society.Coombs, Mary (1996) "Comment: Between Women/Between Men: The Significance for Lesbianism of Historical Understandings of Same-(Male)Sex Sexual Activities," Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities: Vol. 8: Iss. 1, Article 9. Heterosexual men are not only given primacy over other gender and sexual minorities, but are also encouraged and rewarded . On the microscopic level, heteropatriarchy could be evident in consumption habits and relationships while on the macroscopic level  it is demonstrated by the glass ceiling, marriage, and the legal control over female bodies . From a historical 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. Patriarchy is a social system in which men have predominant power and are dominant and have privilege in roles such as: political, economical, societal, and social roles. 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). 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 or heterosexism. Background history Since ancient times, heteropatriarchy has shaped the way how societies across the world have viewed masculinity and femininity . This societal system has had negative effects on societies , which have beat the test of time and are still apparent in modern days. Throughout Ancient China , it is shown by the example of emperors being male  with dominant power . Women and people that showed feminine traits were objectified and oppressed. Women were seen as obedient housewives whose main purpose was to serve males.Glenn, Evelyn Glenn Nakano. “Settler Colonialism as Structure: A Framework for Comparative Studies of U.S. Race and Gender Formation.” Http://Journals.sagepub.com/Doi/Pdf/10.1177/2332649214560440, 2015, journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2332649214560440. Due to this, women's voice has been ignored and suppressed . Leading to a system that grew into a society denying women rights and that they were dehumanized. While there is no definitive origin of where heteropatriarchycame from, there are various places and societies that may have contributed  to its creation. One of the places to contribute is the ancient Greeks . It has been argued that there are records that show that the ancient Greek system used sex and gender as the very foundation of human identity and the very basis of social organization. The Greeks had a critical role in the institutionalization of patriarchy in the Western world and also had an impact on Roman imperialism that furthered their  sex /gender ideas into modern arrangements. Recently,  scholars have begun to document the Greeks' critical role in the institutionalization of patriarchy in the Western World. Synthesizing the work of such scholars , this Section will show how the Greek  sex /gender system, as mediated through Roman imperialism, gave rise to the  sex /gender conceptions that birthed contemporary arrangements. Another cause that has led to heteropatriarchy is heteropaternalism, where it's the premise where heteropatriarchy is established in a domestic arrangement  . Meaning that the father of a house is the leader and center power of a family household, and is in charge of any social arrangements. Even though heteropatriarchy and heteropaternalism mainly defines the perspective of patriarchy that make up a mindset in people's eye that male gender is seen as strong, facetious, and capable . While women in the other hand  are perceived as lower class and weak . Tuck, Eve.“Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy” Academia.edu - Share Research, 2013 %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% This ideology has been promoted through colonization and spreading of Eurocentric culture, reaching hegemony around the world and removing other gender systems as well as other ways of understanding society, genders or eroticism. Relevance One of the main foundations of heteropatriarchy is the normalization of the nuclear family as the only acceptable family unit, manifesting this societal system into modern day . Heteropatriarchy has regulated the bodies of Indigenous women, queer, and trans people and sets out to destroy, control, and manipulate these difference into hierarchies. The effects of heteropatriarchy  have disproportionately affected minority groups, indigenous people, and the lgbtqia+ community.
In feminist theory, heteropatriarchy (etymologically from heterosexual and patriarchy) or cisheteropatriarchy, is a socio-political system where (primarily) cisgender (same gender as identified at birth) and heterosexual males have authority over cisgender females and people with other sexual orientations and gender identities. It is a term that emphasizes that discrimination against women and LGBTQ people is derived from the same sexist social principle.Unpacking Hetero-Patriarchy: Tracing the Conflation of Sex, Gender & Sexual Orientation to Its Origins. La persistencia del heteropatriarcado. The concept postulates that in heteropatriarchal societies, cisgender heterosexual men generally occupy the highest positions of power in society, causing women (including transgender women), non-binary people, transgender men, and other LGBTQ people to experience the bulk of social oppression in relation to gender and sexuality. Reinforcement is said to be made by unclear definitions of "gender", "sex", and "sexual orientation" in a cultural and legal context, as well as by gender norms, which serve to set social expectations associated with masculinity and femininity. Theory The theory of the concept asserts that, as a social system, heteropatriarchy perceives heterosexuality and patriarchy as normal while other configurations are considered abnormal. Normalization of heteropatriarchy is said to perpetuate an environment of oppression and inequality for racial and sexual minority groups.Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy. Feminist Formations. 2013. Heteropatriarchy is a facet of popular feminist analysis used to explain modern hierarchical social structure, which is dependent upon , and includes, the perspective of gender roles, based on a system of interlocking forces of power and oppression. It is said to be commonly understood, in this context , that men typically occupy the highest positions of power and women experience the bulk of social oppression. This system of socio-political dominance is said to be reinforced by gender norms, which ascribe traits of femininity and masculinity to people, whereby cisgender heterosexual men are favored and are routinely remunerated for presenting masculine traits , and conversely, women and people who display traits deemed feminine receive less societal privilege. The concept implies that historically this has manifested in economic disadvantages such as unequal pay, or the inability for women to own land. The practice of legal (and social) culture of relegating gender to the realm of "women's issues" and sexual orientation to the realm of "sexual minorities' issues” is fundamental to this concept of a heteropatriarchal society.Coombs, Mary (1996) "Comment: Between Women/Between Men: The Significance for Lesbianism of Historical Understandings of Same-(Male)Sex Sexual Activities," Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities: Vol. 8: Iss. 1, Article 9. It implies further, that not only are heterosexual men given primacy over other gender and sexual minorities, but they also are encouraged and rewarded by a heteropatriarchal society, and that on the microscopic level, heteropatriarchy could be evident in consumption habits and relationships while on the macroscopic level , it is demonstrated by the glass ceiling, marriage, and the legal control over the bodies of women . From a historical point of view, the term patriarchy refers to the father as the power holder inside family hierarchy, and thereby , women become subordinate to the power of men. Patriarchy is a social system in which men have predominant power and are dominant and have privilege in roles such as: political, economical, societal, and social roles. With the emergence of queer theory around the 1980s and the 1990s and the questioning of heteronormativity and gender binary in contemporary societies , this kind of domination was described not only in terms of gender (the predominance of men over woman, or the masculine over the feminine) or sex, but also in terms of sexuality (the heteronormativity, or heterosexuality above other sexual orientations and the cisgender over other identities). The term heteropatriarchy is said to have evolved from what is described as the previous, less specific term 'patriarchy' in order to emphasize the formation of a male-dominated society based upon the cultural processes of sexism or heterosexism. Background history The concept presumes that since ancient times, heteropatriarchy has shaped the way societies across the world have viewed masculinity and femininity and that this societal system has had negative effects on societies that remain apparent in modern days. Research by Evelyn and Nakano Glenn postulates that Ancient China is an example that confirms this, being a society having male emperors with dominant power , in which women and people who showed feminine traits were objectified and oppressed. Exceptions to the premise not being addressed, women were seen as obedient housewives whose main purpose was to serve males.Glenn, Evelyn Glenn Nakano. “Settler Colonialism as Structure: A Framework for Comparative Studies of U.S. Race and Gender Formation.” Http://Journals.sagepub.com/Doi/Pdf/10.1177/2332649214560440, 2015, journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2332649214560440. The conclusion seems to be that due to this, the voices of women have been ignored and suppressed , leading to a system that grew into a society denying women rights and that they were dehumanized. Some contemporary research postulates that while there is no definitive origin for heteropatriarchy, various places and societies may have contributed significantly to its creation. The classical period of ancient Greek society is identified as one of these contributory factors . It has been argued that there are records that show that the ancient Greek system used gender and sex as the very foundation of human identity and the very basis of social organization. the concept asserts that these Greeks had a critical role in the institutionalization of patriarchy in the Western world and also had an impact on Roman imperialism that furthered their gender/ sex ideas into modern arrangements. Recently, some of these scholars have begun to document the critical role of these Greeks in the institutionalization of patriarchy in the Western World. Synthesizing the work of such scholars is thought to demonstrate how the Greek gender/ sex system, as mediated through Roman imperialism, gave rise to the gender/ sex conceptions that birthed contemporary arrangements. In a premise where heteropatriarchy is established in a domestic arrangement , heteropaternalism is identified as another cause that has led to heteropatriarchy . Meaning that the father of a house is the leader and center power of a family household, and is in charge of any social arrangements. Even though heteropatriarchy and heteropaternalism mainly define the perspective of patriarchy that makes up a mindset about gender wherein men are seen as strong, facetious, and capable while on the other hand , women are perceived as weak and less capable, Tuck, Eve.“Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy” Academia.edu - Share Research, 2013 %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% the concept asserts that this ideology has been promoted through colonization and spreading of Eurocentric culture, reaching hegemony around the world and removing other gender systems as well as other ways of understanding society, gender, or eroticism. Relevance Some researchers in this field of study cite one of the main foundations of heteropatriarchy as the normalization of the nuclear family as the only acceptable family unit, manifesting this societal system into modern day , which they postulate has regulated the bodies of Indigenous women, queer, and trans people and sets out to destroy, control, and manipulate these differences into hierarchies. The effects of heteropatriarchy are said to have disproportionately affected minority groups, indigenous people, and the lgbtqia+ community.
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