The study of genes in scientific research has the effect of further marking as "Other" bodies that are already marked as other because of race, gender, and/or class...the othered bodies of black women, for example, are no longer simply identified by their color or contour, the surface elements of their bodies; they are now also identified by the internal workings of their bodies - their "flawed genes."
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