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Sex, Race, and Biopower: A Foucauldian Genealogy
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 19, Number 3, Summer 2004
- pp. 38-62
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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.