phallocentrism love

Definitions

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  • noun literally Focus on the phallus.
  • noun figuratively Focus on a male point of view.

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Examples

  • The "phallocentrism" as Jeremy calls it won't last for ever.

    The Wine Front 2009

  • No doubt you read about this challenging art film's premiere this week at New York's Museum of Modern Art, where curators praised the film's revolt against phallocentrism and its use of the body as canvas for acts of transgressive violence.

    'Jackass 3D': Tomfoolery and camaraderie in a whole new dimension Dan Kois 2010

  • Greek sex has in fact enabled a current phallocentrism to smuggle itself backwards into history.

    The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006

  • Spirit of Vatican II on Derrida and Truth; the pertinent bit:In veiled polemic against Lacan on the one hand and Deleuze on the other, Derrida declares that the metaphysical notions of truth-presence function as fetishes aiming to supplement and hide the lack of phallus of truth as woman; but that if one rebels against truth, seen as castrating, one falls into the phallocentrism which inspires this denial.

    Archive 2007-03-01 enowning 2007

  • As Cixous points out, "logocentrism and phallocentrism ... the conceptual foundation of an ancient culture is in the process of being undermined by millions of a species of mole ... never before known."

    My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993

  • Frustration with the neglect of women's accomplishments - call it phallocentrism if you like - was what led to women's studies, which has lately morphed into gender studies on some campuses.

    NYT > Home Page By CHARLES McGRATH 2011

  • Really wonder how much of this country’s shift to the red meat politics of brown people killin’ and phallocentrism be attributed to viagra, etc.?

    She Said You Couldn’t Stay Up | ATTACKERMAN 2008

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