This book argues that gender and race are physiologically constituted through the biopsychosocial effects of sexism and racism. Sullivan skillfully combines feminist and critical philosophy of race with the biological and health sciences to provide new strategies for fighting male and white privilege.

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction: Physiological Habits


• 1. The Hips: On the Physiology of Affect and Emotion


• 2. The Gut and Pelvic Floor: On Cloacal Thinking


• 3. The Epigenome: On the Transgenerational Effects of Racism


• 4. The Stomach and the Heart: On the Physiology of White Ignorance


• Conclusion: Social-Political Change and Physiological Transformation


• Bibliography


• Index

Shannon Sullivan is Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair at UNC Charlotte.