Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
Excerpt: "In psychoanalytic theory, the phallus serves as the supreme symbol of masculine power and, concurrently, of feminine lack. “Phallocentrism” is a term used primarily by feminist theorists to denote the pervasive privileging of the masculine within the current system of signification."
Recommended Citation
Rine, Abigail, "Phallus/Phallocentrism" (2010). Faculty Publications - Department of English. 76.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/eng_fac/76
Included in
English Language and Literature Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons
Comments
Originally published in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, ed. R. Eaglestone. Oxford: Blackwell. 2010.
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Encyclopedia+of+Literary+and+Cultural+Theory%2C+3+Volume+Set-p-9781405183123