Gender essentialism
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"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." --The Second Sex (1949) by Simone de Beauvoir "There is nothing about being 'female' that naturally binds women. There is not even such a state as 'being' female, itself a highly complex category constructed in contested sexual scientific discourses and other social practices. Gender, race, or class consciousness is an achievement forced on us by the terrible historical experience of the contradictory social realities of patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism. And who counts as 'us' in my own rhetoric?" --Simians, Cyborgs, and Women (1991) by Donna Haraway |
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Gender essentialism is the theory that there are certain universal, innate, biologically- or psychologically-based features of gender that are at the root of observed differences in the behavior of men and women.
See also
- Essentialism
- French post-structuralist feminism
- Gendered sexuality
- Neuroscience of sex differences
- Neuroplasticity
- The NeuroGenderings Network
- Social construction of gender
- Empathizing–systemizing theory
