Write an essay in response to the following prompts.

How has scientific authority been used to support social inequality around race, gender, and sexuality? 

You must use at least 2 readings from weeks 1-5, and integrate at least 4 of the following concepts in your essay.

• Biological determinism
• Social constructionism
• Social contract
• Essentialism
• Intersectionality
• Racial formation
• The role of science in shaping ideas

about gender, race, and sexuality

• Population control
• Reproductive justice
• Fertility control
• Eugenics
• Liberalism; patriarchal liberalism
• Citizenship
• Gender, state, and nation/nationalism
• Colonialism
• Feminist critiques of the public/private

dichotomy

• Medicalization of bodies
• Ideology
• Scientific racism
• Sterilization abuse
• Homonationalism
• Cult of True Womanhood
• Queer citizenship