essentialism
noun[U]
social sciencespecializeduk/ɪˈsen.ʃəl.ɪ.zəm/us/ɪˈsen.ʃəl.ɪ.zəm/theideathat things havebasiccharacteristicsthat make them what they are, which it is thetaskofscienceandphilosophytodiscoveranddescribe:
本质主义（认为所有实体都有一些必须具备的本质的观点）Drawing inpartupon thethinkingof Aristotle and Plato, essentialism wasadoptedbybiologistsin the 17th and 18thcenturiesandappliedto theconceptofspecies.本质主义部分借鉴了亚里士多德和柏拉图的思想，17和18世纪的生物学家将其应用于物种的概念。
thebeliefthatgroupsofpeople, such as men and women, have differentbasiccharacteristicsthat cannot bechanged:
本质主义（认为所有人都具备某些不可改变的特质的观点）Toreducewomen tomotherhoodis toconfinethem to the sameoldbiologicalessentialism from which theyspentthe lastcenturytryingtoescape.逼迫女性成为母亲就是把她们禁锢在上个世纪她们试图挣脱的过时的生物本质论中。
genderessentialism性别本质主义
See also
bioessentialism
- Abalancethereforeneedsto bestruckbetween Aristotelian essentialism and Nietzscheanindividualism.
- Atitscrudest, essentialism isbiologicaldeterminismandseesidentityas apure, unchangingessenceofraceorsexorclassratherthan something which issociallyorculturallyconstructed.
- Awarningagainst essentialism, herbooktraceshowfictionnaturalizesa society’snormsoffemalebehaviour.
- We arewitnessingareversionto thetypeofculturalessentialism thatdominatedpoliticalandacademicdiscourseuntil the mid-1900s.
- ThechaptersonMuslimandMiddleEasternwomenrejectexceptionalism and essentialism infavourofcomparativeand historicizedapproaches.
- Come on, Ithoughtwemovedpastgenderessentialism threedecadesago!
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