Here’s a delicious irony: “essentialism” is the philosophy that says entities have certain necessary properties that define them, that make them what they are. (It is, of course, a form of ...

Recent debates around transgender people and sexual diversity have been marked by essentialism, a profoundly conservative mindset with deep links to religious and metaphysical dogmatism. It is a ...

I’m going to start with essentialism, which in historical context, emerged prior to any of the other three approaches. In essence, as we will learn, the more we come to understand, the more complex ...

Red and Black Leeds on the limitations of both gender essentialism and sex essentialism as a way to understand gender expression and identity. The Morning Star recently published a couple of articles ...

There is never an excuse for rape. Although there has been an increase in discussion of rape on college campuses, there is still a tendency among some individuals at universities to blame the victim. ...

Gender essentialism is the widely discredited and outdated idea that men and women act differently and have different options ...