Phallogocentrism

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Phallogocentrism is a term from deconstructivist feminism . The central message is that all femininity designs are viewed and formulated from the perspective of the man, which is mainly shown in a "phallocentric" (derived from phallus ) language and thus eliminates the actual division into two human genders. Within this male-dominated language, women are "not a gender, but the masculine that appears differently."

Theory of Phallogocentrism

The theory deals mainly with the use of language in the context of sex ( gender ). The binary, hierarchical opposition of occidental thought is criticized, which leads to the formation of a metaphysical logic of a pair of concepts in which one is understood as original and the other as a derivative. The critical theory drawn up on this basis by the French feminist and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray sees itself as a counter-argument to Freud's theory of penis envy . For Irigaray, women are only understood as a mirror of the man and not perceived as an independent gender in literature. Other post-structural feminists such as Julia Kristeva , Hélène Cixous and Sarah Kofman have taken up this theory. Later studies, for example by Judith Butler , deal with the idea of ​​phallogocentrism and the possibilities of its abolition.

The theory of phallogocentrism is based, among other things, on the ideas of Jacques Lacan's mirror stage and Jacques Derrida's logocentrism .

See also

literature

  • Potsdam studies on women and gender studies. 3rd year, 1999, issue 2: Feminism in Criticism. Women and Gender Studies in the “Third Generation”? ISSN  1433-7444 , urn : nbn: de: kobv: 517-opus-16364 (p. 32 on Butler).
  • Irene Sigmund-Wild: Recognition of the crazy: On Luce Irigaray's draft of an “ethics of sexual difference”. Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-8288-8169-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karina Weirich, Anna Proc: On the theory of gender differences. (PPT; 178 kB) Analysis of selected feminist approaches. (No longer available online.) University of Münster, December 11, 2006, p. 10 , archived from the original on June 10, 2007 ; accessed on May 18, 2017 .
  2. ↑ For example subject / object, self / other, man / woman.
  3. ↑ Irene Sigmund-Wild: Recognition of the crazy: To Luce Irigaray's draft of an "ethics of sexual difference". Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-8288-8169-6 , p. 30 ff.
  4. ↑ Ingrid Galster : French Feminism: On the relationship between equality and difference. In: Ruth Becker , Beate Kortendiek, Barbara Budrich : Handbook Women and Gender Studies : Theory, Methods, Empiricism. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-14278-X , pp. 42-48.