Beyond the Intersection

A New Culinary Metaphor for Race-Class-Gender Studies

Bibliographic Data

ID2265475
AuthorsIvy Ken (0000-0002-5447-1524, George Washington University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume26
Issue2
Pages152-172
Publication date2008-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0735-2751 • E-ISSN: 1467-9558
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9558.2008.00323.x
OpenAlexW2082056921
LanguageEN
Citations received37
References cited17

Few would argue that race, class, and gender are unrelated, now that scholars of inequality have spent decades making the once devalued but now widely accepted case that structures of oppression like these cannot be understood in isolation from one another. Yet the imagery on which the field has relied-race, class, and gender as 'intersecting' or 'interlocking'-has limited our ability to explore the characteristics of their relationships in empirical and theoretical work. In this article I build on the gender framework articulated by Leslie Salzinger to articulate new imagery-via a metaphor of sugar-which highlights how race, class, and gender are produced, used, experienced, and processed in our bodies, human and institutional. This metaphor allows us to emphasize structural and individual forces at work in their continual and mutual constitution

Oppression · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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