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What is gender essentialism?
pp. 11-25
Abstract
In this chapter I distinguish among different theories of gender essentialism and sketch out a taxonomy of gender essentialisms. I focus primarily on the difference between essentialism about a kind and essentialism about an individual. I propose that there is an interesting and useful form of gender essentialism that pertains to social individuals. And I argue that this form of gender essentialism, which I call uniessentialism, is not vulnerable to standard, feminist criticisms of gender essentialism.
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Witt Charlotte (2011) Feminist metaphysics: explorations in the ontology of sex, gender and the self. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 11-25
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3783-1_2
Full citation:
Witt Charlotte (2011) „What is gender essentialism?“, In: C. Witt (ed.), Feminist metaphysics, Dordrecht, Springer, 11–25.