Sentences with phrase «essentialist theories»

When parents have sought to bar homosexual teachers from the classroom lest their children (horror of horrors) become homosexual, essentialist theories have provided a seemingly authoritative basis for denying the possibility.

Greenberg is aware of the comfort that essentialist theories of homosexuality have given the gay and lesbian movements

When heterosexual chauvinists have told homosexuals to change, essentialist theories have provided a ready response: I can't.

Not exact matches

«Essentialist» gender theory maintains that men and women are essentially different, and that these differences are related to the brain much more than to culture.

Cathy Warwick epitomizes that self - serving blatherer that characterizes contemporary British midwifery: the biological essentialist who believes that «natural» birth is more important than safe birth, the anti-rationalist who invokes «quantum theory» to explain why scientific evidence should be ignored in favor of midwives» opinions, the self - absorbed, self - referential, selfish woman who pretends that the needs of midwives are the same as the needs of women.

Thelma Golden, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs at the Studio Museum in Harlem, synopsizes the development of «black art» from «the vital political activism of the 1960s to the focused, often essentialist, Black Arts Movement of the 1970s to the theory — driven multiculturalism of the 1980s to the late globalist expansion of the late 1990s.»

Both exhibitions emphasize the plural nature of feminist art: art made all over the world by women of all different nationalities, classes, and cultural and racial affiliations, and presumably identified with both the «essentialist» and the «constructionist» brands of feminist theory and politics, not to mention the many strategies of feminist art, from craft work to political exposé to canon - busting to the deconstruction of gender mythologies to body - centered investigations.

Through the lens of Stuart Hall's theory of «inferential» racism, I will unpick the ways in which the complexity of intersectional hate speech means that the essentialist narratives of media and legal assessment remain inadequate tools for responding to it.