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Sex, Race, and Biopower: A Foucauldian Genealogy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Ladelle McWhorter
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Abstract

For many years feminists have asserted an “intersection” between sex and race. This paper, drawing heavily on the work of Michel Foucault, offers a genealogical account of the two concepts showing how they developed together and in relation to similar political forces in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Thus it attempts to give a concrete meaning to the claim that sex and race are intersecting phenomena.

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Hypatia , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , Summer 2004 , pp. 38 - 62
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Copyright © 2004 by Hypatia, Inc.

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