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Gender and Race: (What) Are They?(What) do we Want Them To Be?1 Sally HaslangerMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyIf her functioning as a female is not enoughto define woman, if we decline also to explainher through the eternal feminine, and ifnevertheless we admit, provisionally, thatwomen do exist, then we must face the question:what is a woman? Simone de Beauvoir,The Second SexI guess you could chuckle and say that I mjust a woman trapped in a woman s body. Ellen DeGeneres,My I Do Have OneThe truth is that there are no races:there is nothing in the worldthat can do all we ask race to do for us. Kwame Anthony Appiah,In My Father s HouseIt is always awkward when someone asks me informally what I m working onand I answer that I m trying to figure out what Gender is.
is gender?” we can distinguish, then, three projects with importantly different priorities: conceptual, descriptive, and analytical. A conceptual inquiry into race or gender would seek an articulation of our
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