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Gender essentialism examined

Gender essentialism claims that men and women have innate, unchanging natures that determine their roles and capacities—a logic that has historically justified women's exclusion from education, politics, and power. Examining it reveals how much of what feels 'natural' about gender is actually cultural and contingent.

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