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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