• Gender and Race

(What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them to Be?  If her functioning as a female is not enough to define a woman, if we also decline to explain her through “the eternal feminine”, and if, nevertheless, we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?

 —Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex            

You could chuckle and say that I’m just a woman trapped in a woman’s body.

 —Ellen DeGeneres, My Point . . . and I Do Have One    

The truth is that there are no races: there is nothing in the world that can do all we ask race to do for us.

—Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father’s House