Sentences with phrase «more essentialist»

As Prof. Kneebone's career progressed, however, he began to take a more essentialist and materialistic approach to his work, and it occurred to him that perhaps he was in fact more closely related to professionals who, like him, completed delicate work with their hands or instruments.

This aloofness may be the point of the larger works; her more essentialist notions regarding process and presentation are stretched almost to a breaking point.

On the other hand, feminists with a more essentialist vision — a vision of some essential quality unique to women or unique to a woman's relationship to her child — will find Robertson's doctrine unacceptable.

Not exact matches

However, for process - relational thought, any form of postmodernism based on substantialist and essentialist views is inadequate and counterproductive; its exploration of the motifs elaborated by Hauerwas would be considerably different and more adequate.

«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.

Gay author Dennis Altman has denied the essentialist view and declared that the homosexual movement is a direct continuation of the counterculture's move toward a freer and more inclusive bisexuality (a position similar to the one held by Foucault).

Pro-choice feminists who employ an essentialist argument against Robertson will have to deal with an inconsistency, however: advocating freedom to choose to abort is inconsistent with the claim that the mother - fetus bond is more fundamental than choice.

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.

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Thinking about abstraction's continued relevance may require me to at least mention Zombie Formalism, («Formalism because this art involves a straightforward, reductive, essentialist method of making a painting and Zombie because it brings back to life the discarded aesthetics of Clement Greenberg»), if only to suggest that the term, coined by artist - critic Walter Robinson, quoted in brackets above, seems to refer more to the market than to the art and may appear more pertinent in the USA than in the UK where alternative modernisms have sometimes held more sway than the version associated with Greenberg and Fried.

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.