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单词 phallocentric
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Definition of phallocentric in English:

phallocentric

adjective ˌfalə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪkˌfalōˈsentrik
  • Focused on or concerned with the phallus or penis as a symbol of male dominance.

    the apartment block was an architectural monument to a phallocentric world
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most often, men are phallocentric (fascinated with their penises) and have not taken the opportunity to explore their own sexual body.
    • In her view, the black males in Wilson's plays represent the ‘white supremacist capitalist patriarchy's phallocentric ideal’ and are constantly defending their genitals from the castrating gaze of black women.
    • As a figment of heterosexual wish-fulfilment, the female nude serves primarily to guarantee the stability of a phallocentric fantasy in which the omnipotent male gaze sees but is never itself seen.
    • The SFO is deliberately against technical virtuosity in favour of serendipity, against phallocentric guitar-heroism in favour of a detached, unphysical approach to playing.
    • Jones attempts to subvert the white patriarchal system by inverting the power dynamic serve only to reinscribe phallocentric notions of power and control.

Derivatives

  • phallocentricity

  • noun ˌfalə(ʊ)sɛnˈtrɪsɪti
    • In this essay, I argue that study of Hotspur offers an opportunity to examine the paradoxical quality of phallocentricity: Hotspur, the knight who helped defeat a king and usurp a kingdom, is nervous with his wife.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The human mind that invented science in the first place could also uncover the unconscious fantasies and schema, e.g. phallocentricity, which so destructively dominate large groups and the whole world.
  • phallocentrism

  • noun ˌfalə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪz(ə)m
    • In such a world, suggests Maddin, avarice, phallocentrism, corporatism and narcissism are dominating the world and deforming it utterly.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His courageous polemic against the tenacity of phallocentrism in Western art shines out, to quote Portia, ‘like a good deed in a naughty world.’
      • Perhaps the extreme phallocentrism and misogyny expressed to varying degrees by Kid Rock and Eminem is anxiety about masculinity in a time and place where the old ways - steady industrial employment and family - no longer maintain.
      • Symptomatic of the narrative's phallocentrism is the fact that only the male protagonist comes to possess a larger understanding of the family's oppression.
      • Julia Kristeva writes about opposing phallocentrism with images derived from women's corporeal experiences.

Rhymes

androcentric, centric, concentric, eccentric, egocentric, ethnocentric, Eurocentric, geocentric, theocentric
 
 

Definition of phallocentric in US English:

phallocentric

adjectiveˌfalōˈsentrik
  • Focused on or concerned with the phallus or penis as a symbol of male dominance.

    the apartment block was an architectural monument to a phallocentric world
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In her view, the black males in Wilson's plays represent the ‘white supremacist capitalist patriarchy's phallocentric ideal’ and are constantly defending their genitals from the castrating gaze of black women.
    • As a figment of heterosexual wish-fulfilment, the female nude serves primarily to guarantee the stability of a phallocentric fantasy in which the omnipotent male gaze sees but is never itself seen.
    • Jones attempts to subvert the white patriarchal system by inverting the power dynamic serve only to reinscribe phallocentric notions of power and control.
    • Most often, men are phallocentric (fascinated with their penises) and have not taken the opportunity to explore their own sexual body.
    • The SFO is deliberately against technical virtuosity in favour of serendipity, against phallocentric guitar-heroism in favour of a detached, unphysical approach to playing.
 
 
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