\[**up: [[Gender]] | [[Gender studies]]** ] --- # Gender essentialism > “… the concept that men and women have specific, innate qualities related to their gender”.[^1] [^1]: Allison Alexander, ‘[[Alexander. ‘Moving Beyond Binaries in Gender-Based Magic Systems_ The Wheel of Time and Iron Widow’, 2021.|Moving Beyond Binaries in Gender-Based Magic Systems: The Wheel of Time and Iron Widow]]’, *Reactor Magazine*, 12 October 2021, https://reactormag.com/moving-beyond-binaries-in-gender-based-magic-systems-the-wheel-of-time-and-iron-widow//.