ISBN:
978-0-8032-8555-2
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978-1-4962-1248-1
Language:
English
Pages:
xxiii, 272 Seiten ;
,
24 cm.
Series Statement:
Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
Parallel Title:
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Dissertation note:
Dissertation McGill University 2008
DDC:
305.4201
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
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Feminismus
;
Schwarze. USA
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Feminist theory
;
Women's studies
;
Women, Black
;
African Americans Race identity
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
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Intersektionalität.
;
Feminismus.
;
Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Intersektionalität
;
Feminismus
Abstract:
"Intersectionality intervenes in the field of intersectionality studies: the integrative examination of the effects of racial, gendered, and class power on people's lives. While "intersectionality" circulates as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins other critical voices to urge a more careful reading. Challenging the narratives of arrival that surround it, Carastathis argues that intersectionality is a horizon, illuminating ways of thinking that have yet to be realized; consequently, calls to "go beyond" intersectionality are premature. A provisional interpretation of intersectionality can disorient habits of essentialism, categorial purity, and prototypicality and overcome dynamics of segregation and subordination in political movements. Through a close reading of critical race theorist Kimberle Williams Crenshaw's germinal texts, published more than twenty-five years ago, Carastathis urges analytic clarity, contextual rigor, and a politicized, historicized understanding of this widely traveling concept. Intersectionality's roots in social justice movements and critical intellectual projects...specifically Black feminism...must be retraced and synthesized with a decolonial analysis so its radical potential to actualize coalitions can be enacted"...
Abstract:
"Intersectionality critically examines the mainstreaming and institutionalization of this concept, offering a renewed understanding through close readings of some of its generative texts"...
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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