Culturalism

Beauvoir herself provides a working definition of “culturalism”: No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, […]

To fail to situate gender identity within the context of other systems of power is to risk falling into a form of culturalism or 'associational mode' of thinking where all social inequalities are considered primarily as issues of recognition and identity formation and not as systemically perpetuated forms of discrimination.