"A Rutgers University women’s and gender studies professor thinks she has the answer to why white women seemingly voted against their interests in the 2016 presidential and last month’s Alabama US Senate elections.
“Simply put,” Kyla Schuller writes in a guest post for the Duke University Press blog, “sex difference is itself a racial structure.”
The professor, whose research interests include feminist science studies, biopolitics, and Transnational American Studies, claims that “sexual difference, as a concept, emerged as a function of race.” 
Her new book, The Biopolitics of Feeling, “zeroes in on this generally overlooked phenomenon.”
Indeed.
Weird how so many think of sexual difference in terms of biology.
“The binary entities of man and woman were newly understood as thoroughly distinct in terms of mental, physiological, emotional, and psychological capacity,” Schuller writes.
“Sex difference was presented as the singular attainment of a teleological evolution moving toward ever greater specialization.”
Well, when you put it that way …
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