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UPDATE: John Wilkins has an excellent post in response called Essentialism Revisited.
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Essentialism, or groups which represent invariable, predictable moralities/ideologies rather than being capable of thought, free will, variability, and individuality (e.g., orcs in early D&D are always evil);
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Essentialism, in venerating outdated ideas about gender roles (even as they claim to deny them) is a definitively conservative idea.
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Essentialism: Essentialist positions on gender and sexuality consider these to be fixed traits, while not allowing for variations among individuals or over time.
Trans 101 2008
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Anne explained that most people of the time were mired in “Essentialism” - the idea that all things, including species, are immutable, unchanging “essences.”
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However, her “feminism” is more effectively described as “Wimminist Essentialism”.
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Essentialism is, for example, when generalised statements are asserted that make no reference to relative perspectives, cross-cultural differences, or documented historical variations.
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Where I perceive essentialism is in precisely the kinds of assertions that use words like "every person" or "best book": Essentialism is, in simple terms, the idea that people and/or phenomena and/or objects, including art objects, have an underlying and unchanging essence.
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Essentialism, the earliest of the four approaches, arose from cultural cartographies and greatly influenced modernization theorists whose positions became the points of departure of the other three approaches.
Gender Sensitivity Among Nigerian Ethnic Group « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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Essentialism about cultures and societies is problematic not just because it is often racist, but also because it makes thinking clearly very difficult.
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