DWEM

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Dwem

(dwɛm)

n acronym for

(Sociology) Dead White European Male

DWEM

Slang. dead white European male.

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The canon as a collection of evaluated, recognised and model texts, arranged with regard to the quality of representative literary examples, was first questioned by feminist and post-cultural critics and cultural studies, primarily in relation to sexual identity and the Western tradition, summarised in the acronym DWEM (dead white European males).

Otherness and the contemporary Slovene novel

It was going to be up to me to release that memory, via the incomparable verse of the DWEM of all DWEMs.

Authentic protest, authentic Shakespeare, authentic Africans: performing Othello in South Africa

Political correctness has brought about a new vocabulary of words into our culture with terms like homophobic, multicultural, Eurocentric, disadvantaged, physically challenged, carbon footprint, sex worker, lookism, fattist, phallocentric, waitron, wimmin, differently abled, and DWEM (dead white European males).