Essentialist

I think it's for the best that the seriesultimately avoided a gender-essentialist conclusion, whether anti-male or anti-female.

The appropriate proven effective infrastructure, interventions and resources to change that essentialist gender view are well known.

By using essentialist discourse and the ‘othering’ of the Iraqi people, he portrayed the war as a civilising mission that would bring freedom and democracy.

Ms. Duras, one of the most distinctive voices in 20th-century French fiction, operated on the essentialist premise that men and women are fundamentally unalike, and some of her works have rapidly acquired a dated feel in that regard.

An essentialist program normally teaches children progressively, from less complex skills to more complex.

Another important essentialist is E. D. Hirsch (1928-).

C. S. Lewis and the Gender Debates, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen finds in Lewis's work "a hierarchical and essentialist view of class and gender” corresponding to an Edwardian upbringing.

DeLapp 177. To what extent Herodotus was an essentialist is a matter of debate; he is also credited with not essentializing the concept of the Athenian identity, Lape 149-52.

Essentialist curricula thus tend to be much more vocational and fact-based, and far less liberal and principle-based.

Fiction about gynoids has therefore been described as reinforcing "essentialist ideas of femininity", citation although others have suggested that the treatment of androids is a way of exploring racism and misogyny in society.

Language that had previously been used by essentialist non-Buddhist philosophers was now adopted, with new definitions, by Buddhists to promote orthodox teachings.

Many of the early studies of 'sexuality and space' took an essentialist viewpoint whereby individuals within one social grouping are assumed to possess similar, if not the same, identities.

New York: Vintage Books As 'essence' may imply permanence, some argue that essentialist thinking tends towards political conservatism and therefore opposes social change.

Popper himself is a realist as opposed to an idealist, but a methodological nominalist as opposed to an essentialist.

Post-modern influence The emergence of post-modernism theories affected gender studies, causing a movement in identity theories away from the concept of fixed or essentialist gender identity, to post-modern Grebowicz, M. (2007).

Presumably, in an essentialist classroom, the teacher is the one designing the curriculum for the students based upon the core disciplines.

There are four key criteria which constitute essentialist thinking.

These scholars argue that the concept of ethnic war is misleading because it leads to an essentialist conclusion that certain groups are doomed to fight each other when in fact the wars between them occur are often the result of political decisions.

This conception is considered and ultimately rejected for being too general; that is, as an essentialist account of the nature of language it is simply too narrow to be able to account for the variety of things we do with language.

This is so because identity is viewed in non-essentialist terms as a construct, and because constructs only produce meaning through the interplay of difference inside a "system of distinct signs".