essentialism
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本质主义（认为所有实体都有一些必须具备的本质的观点）
the idea that things have basic characteristics that make them what they are, which it is the task of science and philosophy to discover and describe
Drawing in part upon the thinking of Aristotle and Plato, essentialism was adopted by biologists in the 17th and 18th centuries and applied to the concept of species. 本质主义部分借鉴了亚里士多德和柏拉图的思想，17和18世纪的生物学家将其应用于物种的概念。
本质主义（认为所有人都具备某些不可改变的特质的观点）
the belief that groups of people, such as men and women, have different basic characteristics that cannot be changed
To reduce women to motherhood is to confine them to the same old biological essentialism from which they spent the last century trying to escape. 逼迫女性成为母亲就是把她们禁锢在上个世纪她们试图挣脱的过时的生物本质论中。
gender essentialism 性别本质主义
See also: bioessentialism
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- A balance therefore needs to be struck between Aristotelian essentialism and Nietzschean individualism. #p#分页标题#e#
- At its crudest, essentialism is biological determinism and sees identity as a pure, unchanging essence of race or sex or class rather than something which is socially or culturally constructed.
- A warning against essentialism, her book traces how fiction naturalizes a society’s norms of female behaviour.
- We are witnessing a reversion to the type of cultural essentialism that dominated political and academic discourse until the mid-1900s.
- The chapters on Muslim and Middle Eastern women reject exceptionalism and essentialism in favour of comparative and historicized approaches.
- Come on, I thought we moved past gender essentialism three decades ago!
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