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phallocentrism

Meaning of "phallocentrism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PHALLOCENTRISM

ˌfæləʊˈsɛntrɪzəm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHALLOCENTRISM

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Phallocentrism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PHALLOCENTRISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Phallogocentrism

In critical theory and deconstruction, phallogocentrism is a neologism coined by Jacques Derrida to refer to the privileging of the masculine in the construction of meaning. It is a portmanteau of the older terms phallocentrism, putting the masculine point of view central, and logocentrism, giving a central place to words and language in assigning meaning to the world. Derrida and others identified phonocentrism, or the prioritizing of speech over writing, as an integral part of phallogocentrism. Derrida explored this idea in his essay "Plato's Pharmacy".

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHALLOCENTRISM

androcentrism · aneurysm · anthropocentrism · belletrism · centrism · consumerism · ecotourism · egocentrism · ethnocentrism · logocentrism · militarism · plagiarism · polycentrism · prism · secularism · Tantrism · terrorism · tourism · voyeurism · Zoroastrism

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHALLOCENTRISM

phalansterist · phalanstery · phalanx · phalarope · phalli · phallic · phallic symbol · phallically · phallicism · phallicist · phallin · phallism · phallist · phallocentric · phallocentricity · phallocrat · phallocratic · phalloid · phalloidin · phallus

WORDS THAT END LIKE PHALLOCENTRISM

adventure tourism · agritourism · agrotourism · amateurism · aneurism · antiterrorism · asterism · charism · counterterrorism · esoterism · futurism · hypopituitarism · isomerism · mesmerism · naturism · space tourism · theocentrism · vampirism · voluntarism · volunteerism

Synonyms and antonyms of phallocentrism in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «phallocentrism» into 25 languages

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菲勒斯
1,325 millions of speakers
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falocentrismo
570 millions of speakers
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phallocentrism
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phallocentrism
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phallocentrism
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phallocentrism
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falocentrismo
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phallocentrism
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phallocentrisme
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Phallocentrism
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Phallozentrismus
180 millions of speakers
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phallocentrism
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phallocentrism
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Phallocentrism
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phallocentrism
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phallocentrism
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टेलिफोनिक
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phallocentrism
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fallocentrismo
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fallogocentrycznych
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phallocentrism
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phallocentrism
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phallocentrism
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phallocentrism
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phallocentrism
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phallocentrism
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about phallocentrism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHALLOCENTRISM»

Discover the use of phallocentrism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to phallocentrism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fantasy Women: The Literary Roots of Phallocentrism in ...
This essay explores the reason why fantasy computer games continue to use sexist stereotypes of women including scantily-clad temptresses, Amazonian warrior-princesses and evil witches.
Amanda Greenslade, 2011
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Postmodernism and Continental Philosophy
If phallocentrism generated logocentrism out of Logic, constituting itself as phallogocentrism, then destroying logocentrism without destroying phallocentrism is possible. But destroying phallocentrism without destroying logocentrism, i.e., ...
Hugh J. Silverman, Donn Welton, 1988
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The Freudian Mystique: Freud, Women, and Feminism
4. Dethroning. the. Goddess. and. Phallocentrism. Cultural Advance to the Oedipal Period In this chapter we will further develop the hypothesis that phylogeny also recapitulates ontogeny — the history of a culture parallels individual ...
Samuel Slipp, 1995
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Acts of Literature
Texts like those by Nietzsche, Joyce, Ponge, Bataille, Artaud, violently phallocentric in so many ways, produce deconstructive effects, and precisely against phallocentrism, whose logic is always ready to reverse itself or subvert itself. Inversely ...
Jacques Derrida, Derek Attridge, 1992
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Hegel After Derrida
In doing so, it also neglects a crucial feature of Derrida's critique of phallocentrism, one that distinguishes it from both Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and even from the position Kofman takes in her essay on Glas, indebted though she ...
Stuart Barnett, 2002
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Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of ...
While Irigaray, like Kofman, does make reference to the author's desire or the author's ruses, I have suggested that her strongest focus is on textual instability as constitutive of phallocentrism. Her texts drift less towards reconstructions of the  ...
Penelope Deutscher, 2002
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Reading Art, Reading Irigaray: The Politics of Art by Women
The 'blind spots' of psychoanalysis and of phallocentrism are woman's body and woman's sexuality. This, then, is the location of essentialism in relation to sex in the phallocentric economy: that the whole edifice of phallocentrism is built upon ...
Hilary Robinson, 2006
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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, ...
In Jones' work the phallus was seen to have a direct correspondence with the penis and thus phallocentrism was seen to denote the exclusive empowerment of men. The 'psychoanalytic theory of 'Jacques Lacan, however, has dissociated the  ...
Irene Rima Makaryk, 1993
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Deconstruction, Feminist Theology, and the Problem of ...
Freud's account of sexual difference reduces to sameness because the standard of value that governs his account of femininity is not just masculine sexuality, but the phallus.25 The phallocentrism evident in Freud's texts is not simply or even ...
Ellen T. Armour, 1999
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The Dictionary of Human Geography
Critiques of phallocentrism have led French feminists such as Helene Cixous and Luce Irigarary, and male philosophers such as Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, to explore feminine (i.e. more open and multiple) ways of writing and ...
Derek Gregory, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHALLOCENTRISM»

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'Desire is revolutionary, otherwise it's not desire'
But this is the ideal of a society where phallocentrism can be eliminated. So far, that's utopic. So if a person now wants to have a sex change ... «Buenos Aires Herald, Jul 15»
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The ROM's new Pompeii exhibit offers much to see but falters in …
... the groaningly titled “Sex in the City” section where, courtesy of an array of amatory artifacts, you'll discover the real roots of “phallocentrism.”. «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
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8 Creative Comebacks to Street Harassment, Because You Don't …
“Sir, your MALE GAZE is unwanted here,” “Your phallocentrism is showing,” “Ever thought about stepping outside of your gender role and not catcalling women? «Bustle, Jun 15»
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He thinks feminists are 'obnoxious bigots': meet the new justice …
We are different. Each gender needs to get away from gynocentrism, not towards phallocentrism but to a new deal that has compassion for both ... «Left Foot Forward, May 15»
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Guest column: Debate suspension stifles critical thinking about …
... of them despite being higher in the bracket, citing their support for the arguments the women were reading about disrupting phallocentrism. «Whitman Pioneer, Apr 15»
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The return of Alien, Ellen Ripley, and the role of the phallic woman in …
Does Alien's phallocentrism amount to sexism, though? Given the fluidity now involved in our understanding of gender and sexuality, would ... «OntheBox, Apr 15»
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Shortlist announced for Shepparton Art Museum's $50000 Sidney …
... on the other hand, uses ceramics to explore both grunge aesthetics and the notion of phallocentrism across Hindu and Christian contexts. «Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 15»
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Chile's Women's Ministry: A Victory for Gender Equality?
However, it's only a symptom of a deeper structural problem within society, which I'll call here “phallocentrism,” the name given to it by Jacques ... «PanAm Post, Mar 15»
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From the Vaults: Fellini's 'Satyricon'
I was a junior in high school, and I had become pretty comfortable with the phallocentrism of the classical authors. At a boys' school, you're ... «Harvard Crimson, Mar 15»
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What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women
Feminists 'see phallocentrism in everything longer than it is wide,' Mr. Sacks wrote. 'If you're male and heterosexual at Stanford, you have sex ... «Newsweek, Jan 15»
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« EDUCALINGO. Phallocentrism [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/phallocentrism>. May 2024 ».
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