Sentences with phrase «gender essentialist»

When I say the words «dress - up game» you probably have a pretty solid preconception of what that means: mobile, freemium, very, very pink and gender essentialist.

Therapist Frank Pittman, in his 1993 book Man Enough, suggests (in opposition to Freud and other gender essentialists) that nurturant fathering, rather than turning boys into stereotypical men, accomplishes the opposite, much healthier result.

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.

In most cases, traditional gender role stereotypes were reinforced, and gender was portrayed in an essentialist manner.»

Students at Minneapolis College of Art and Design criticized their Estrogen Bomb poster campaign, describing it as insensitive towards transgender people since it ties the female gender to estrogen, the same sort of essentialist link the Guerilla Girls aim to critique.

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.

Micchelli writes: «In her highly informative essay on the exhibition's website, curator [Barbara] Stehle takes issue with an essentialist agenda that would split aesthetic inclinations between male and female: «For the 9 women in the show, the point was never to make a distinction between the genders.

«Elitist, ableist sexist and gender - essentialist values about presenting oneself in particular ways are not simply facts of law school life.

Fact: «The essentialist perspective assumes that boys need a heterosexual male parent to establish a masculine gender identity.

More than that, other features can affect sexual selection (e.g., local mortality, population density, etc.) and further influence gendered choosiness, so any kind of categorical, essentialist Mars - Venus distinction is hardly the right way to conceptualize animal sexualities.