Gender Essentialism

Women’s Studies (Humanities), 1995

The idea of women being born female tending to make them act like women. A sinister conspiracy. Highly intellectual™.

Attributed to Derrida/Foucault-loving Australian Women’s Studies Dean Elizabeth Grosz in her 1995 scribble “Space, time and perversion: essays on the politics of bodies”. A stable genius at work. Competitive analyses suggest Angela Harris’ 1990 paper “Race and essentialism in feminist legal theory” in Stanford law review.

• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=gender+essentialism
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=gender+essentialism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Grosz
• https://www.amazon.co.uk/Space-Time-Perversion-Essays-Politics/dp/0415911370
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_P._Harris
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1228886.pdf