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essentialismIn ontology, the view that some properties of objects are essential to them. The “essence” of a thing is conceived as the totality of its essential properties. Theories of essentialism differ with respect to their conception of what it means to say that a property is essential to an object. The concept of an essential property is closely related to the concept of necessity, since one way of saying that a property P is essential to an object O is to say that the proposition “O has P” is necessarily true (see necessity). A general but not very informative way of characterizing essential properties is to say that a property is essential to an object if the object cannot lack the property and still be the object that it is. Properties of an object that are not essential in this sense are said to be accidental. See also identity of indiscernables. |
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However, discourses also revealed participants' belief in gender equality as a realised ideal and an acceptance of gender essentialism, indicating that their ability to 'extend the boundaries of girlhood' did not include the agency necessary to transform gender norms. Having spent a great deal of her time during her distinguished career working with white students, McKay is confident that they can be trained to do the job: "Contrary to much of the angry rhetoric associated with ideologies of essentialism that some black scholars engage in, there is nothing mystical about African American literature that makes it the sole property of people of African descent" (24). Essentialism holds that there is an unchanging core experience across cultures, while constructivism or contextualism claims that a mystical phenomenon is the product of its historical, cultural, and religious context. |
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