| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 272 pages) |
| Series |
Expanding frontiers, interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality |
|
Expanding frontiers.
|
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Intersectionality, Black Feminist Thought, and Women-of-Color Organizing; 2. Basements and Intersections; 3. Intersectionality as a Provisional Concept; 4. Critical Engagements with Intersectionality; 5. Identities as Coalitions; 6. Intersectionality and Decolonial Feminism; Conclusion; References; Index |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
|
"Intersectionality critically examines the mainstreaming and institutionalization of this concept, offering a renewed understanding through close readings of some of its generative texts"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-261) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Feminist theory.
|
|
Women's studies.
|
|
Women, Black.
|
|
African Americans -- Race identity.
|
|
Intersectionality (Sociology)
|
|
women's studies.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
|
|
Intersectionality (Sociology)
|
|
African Americans -- Race identity
|
|
Feminist theory
|
|
Women, Black
|
|
Women's studies
|
|
Intersektionalität
|
|
Feminismus
|
|
Schwarze Frau
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| LC no. |
2016034740 |
| ISBN |
9780803296626 |
|
0803296622 |
|
9780803296633 |
|
0803296630 |
|
9780803296640 |
|
0803296649 |
|
