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词汇 phallocracy
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Definition of phallocracy in English:

phallocracy

nounPlural phallocracies faˈlɒkrəsifaˈläkrəsē
  • A society or system which is dominated by men and in which the male sex is thought superior.

    男权主义社会(或制度),大丈夫主义社会(或制度)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Feminists imply that due to phallocracy rape was never seriously punished before they began to intervene.
    • It is worth checking out Eva Keuls' work on female ritual resistance to the phallocracy back in Ancient Greece.
    • Dealing with the end of the Periclean age, specifically in and around 415 BCE, Keuls charts the 'phallocracy' underlying Athenian society.

Derivatives

  • phallocratic

  • adjective ˌfalə(ʊ)ˈkratɪkˌfæloʊˈkrædɪk
    • Relating to or denoting a society or system which is dominated by men and in which the male sex is thought superior.

      男权主义社会(或制度),大丈夫主义社会(或制度)

      a patriarchal, phallocratic society
      Example sentencesExamples
      • phallocratic privileges
      • The convergence of female violence against men and resistance to heterosexuality ‘draws one toward the place where meaning collapses’: this is the phallocratic meaning of woman.
      • The film virtually absolves Hamlet of his ensuing phallocratic tyranny toward Ophelia, for this tyranny is greatly mitigated by the fact that Ophelia has wounded him in a seemingly arbitrary fashion.
      • While this work is critical of a phallocratic system, its reliance on Freudian theory makes it unwillingly complicit in the reproduction of the categories of heterosexuality that are foundational to this system.

Origin

1970s: from Greek phallos 'phallus' + -cracy.

Definition of phallocracy in US English:

phallocracy

nounfaˈläkrəsē
  • A society or system which is dominated by men and in which the male sex is thought superior.

    男权主义社会(或制度),大丈夫主义社会(或制度)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is worth checking out Eva Keuls' work on female ritual resistance to the phallocracy back in Ancient Greece.
    • Feminists imply that due to phallocracy rape was never seriously punished before they began to intervene.
    • Dealing with the end of the Periclean age, specifically in and around 415 BCE, Keuls charts the 'phallocracy' underlying Athenian society.

Origin

1970s: from Greek phallos ‘phallus’ + -cracy.

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