Bioessentialist

Far from acknowledging the indeterminacy and fluidity of the self, these writers insisted on a bioessentialist conception of identity, presenting their own mediumistic capabilities as the product, not of revelation, piety, or rigorous practice, but rather of evolutionary destiny and inherited capacity.

This is important because, if the move away from bioessentialist understandings of sexuality and toward an acceptance of sexual and gender fluidity is a lasting trend, there are significant sociological implications in the areas of sex and gender, sexualities, and social movements.

Ecofeminism became popular in the 1970s when feminists began gendering nature as "woman." Their original arguments for ecofeminism are only slightly bioessentialist, meaning they see an individual's personality traits as dependent on their biological gender (one of the main points being that women are born more nurturing than men).