Talk:Strategic essentialism

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[edit] Deletion discussion

This article survived a nomination for deletion, following a rewrite. The discussion can be found here. Flowerparty■ 02:53, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I would strongly dispute deletion for this article. Strategic essentialism is one of the more vital and crucial terms in academia today. It serves a major and intellectual purpose: if there is, ultimately, no referent for the state, woman, homosexuality, Islam, or some other idea--that is there is no there there, in the end--then we can strategically choose to treat topics as fixed, stable, and meaningful. It's a significant idea.

Indeed, this article is deserving of much elaboration. I could add some, but I'd like to see a more accomplished scholar in this area come forward.--Dylanfly 20:57, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Date of first appearance?

I would also like to ask: on what date did strategic essentialism first appear? In what publication first? My own recollection is in the forward to Derrida's _Grammatology_ but I might be off.

I did a little hunting. Seems like Spivak first talked about this in an interview in 1984-5: Criticism, feminism, and the institution,” interview with Elizabeth Gross, Thesis Eleven, 10/11, November/March: 175-87.--Dylanfly 21:17, 19 June 2007 (UTC)