Intersectionality and Feminist Politics
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References
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics
Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice
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Frequently Asked Questions (7)
Q2. What is the meaning of intersectional analysis?
Intersectional analysis of social divisions has come to occupy central spaces in both sociological and other analyses of stratification as well as in feminist and other legal, political and policy discourses of international human rights.
Q3. What is the main point of the debate?
as demonstrated throughout the article, what is at the heart of the debate is conflation or separation of the different analytic levels in which intersectionality is located, rather than just a debate on the relationship of the divisions themselves.
Q4. What is the argument against the triple oppression approach?
Their argument against the ‘triple oppression’ approach was that there is no such thing as suffering from oppression ‘as Black’, ‘as a woman’, ‘as a working-class person’.
Q5. What is the definition of the debate?
This debate can also be constructed as a debate between identity politics and transversal politics2 (Cockburn and Hunter, 1999; YuvalDavis, 1994, 1997) or between the recognition and recognition/distribution models of the politics of difference (Benhabib, 2002; Fraser, 1997).
Q6. What is the point of Butler’s critique?
Judith Butler (1990) mocks the ‘etc.’ that often appears at the end of lists of social divisions mentioned by feminists (e.g. at the beginning of this article) and sees it as an embarrassed admission of a ‘sign of exhaustion as well as of the illimitable process of signification itself’
Q7. What does she mean by structural intersectionality?
Structural intersectionality pertains to:. . . the ways in which the location of women of colour at the intersection of race and gender makes their actual experience of domestic violence, rape and remedial reform qualitatively different from that of white women.