Binarist

Gender binarists believe that everybody is either male or female, with no middle ground.

While these modes of Chineseness are often, in practice, complementary, recent analyses have tended to frame them in more binarist terms.

While Kohler's text is more binarist, circumscribed and pessimistic, Behr's text offers readers an understanding of the anxieties, hypocrisies, choices and complicities which soiled all under apartheid; […]

[…] Potter became disillusioned with the avant-garde as a filmic mode for political and/ or feminist goals, and with Orlando aimed at a more comprehensible narrative and a less binarist conception of gender.

The different ways of mythologizing Tolstoy indicate a return to more binarist modes of thinking on the cultural plane, which threatens the dialectical relationship between the universal and the particular (Adorno 1991).