Meaning of DWEM | Babel Free

Definitions

Acronym of dead white European male.

abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, derogatory

Examples

“Female authors, added in recent years, include⟳ Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf. Many instructors, who may add⟳ works to the required list, also include⟳ Sappho. Even so, the emphasis on DWEM's does not please⟳ many women and minorities. […] It was in Professor Smit's classroom that Plato was the DWEM of the day.”

“Few physicists are deploring the dead-white-European-male (DWEM) origins of their discipline.”

“The DWEM represents the canon works so long prized by academic traditionalists — works created largely by Western, Eurocentric men, mostly now dead […]”

“Foucault has met a similar fate — derided as another DWEM […]”

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