 Alcoff points out that such phenomenological accounts “require a cross-indexing by cultural and ethnic specificity” (Alcoff 2006: 107). In her work a phenomenological account is employed to give an account of those identity categories which are anchored in material bodily features, what she terms visible identities. Alcoff is offering an account which integrates social identity categories with people’s experiences of the bodies of themselves and others. Focusing primarily on raced and gendered identities, she makes clear the way in which bodily features, (color, hair, nose, breasts, genitals) are invested with a significance which becomes a part of our immediate perceptual experience of them: 