On Immunity: An Inoculation

by Eula Biss

“That, of course,” Haraway writes, “is why women have had so much trouble counting as individuals in modern Western discourses. Their personal, bounded individuality is compromised by their bodies’ troubling talent for making other bodies, whose individuality can take precedence over their own, even while the little bodies are fully contained.” One of our functions, as women, is to be divided.