English edit

Etymology edit

anti- +‎ phallic

Adjective edit

antiphallic (comparative more antiphallic, superlative most antiphallic)

  1. Opposing the phallic.
    • 1988 June 17, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Daisies”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      Featuring two uninhibited young women who are both named Marie--whose various escapades, which add up less to a plot than to a string of outrageous set pieces, include several antiphallic gags, and a free-for-all with fancy food rivaling Laurel and Hardy that got Chytilova in lots of trouble with the authorities--this is a disturbing yet liberating tour de force from a talented director showing what she can do with freedom.
    • 1999, Emily Apter, “Scopic regimes of Power/Phallic Law”, in Continental Drift:
      In this chapter I will examine, on the one hand, how the sexual fantasies codified in harem texts may be used to construe an antiphallic, gynarchic model of "what a woman wants," []