Banu Subramaniam is a professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her books include Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity and Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism.
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