Intersectionality

Intersectionality (as a concept) originated with black American feminist thinkers of the late nineteenth century. It later germinated in collaborative work undertaken by women of color in the American civil and women's rights movements of the 1960s. It bloomed in the 1990s and has the potential to transform theory, methodology, and teaching around social and spatial issues of human difference and disadvantage. Intersectionality refers to lives lived, and the knowledge that arises from the intersections of social structures such as race, class, ability, and gender, that have the potential to oppress. The social and intellectual contexts from which intersectionality comes are key to understanding and using it. The concept has become very popular in research, activism, and teaching. Case study research as well as important scholarly debates are ongoing. Insights from work by and on women of color with origins in the Global South are especially exciting.

Civil rights · Disadvantage · Feminism · Intersectionality · People of color · Political science · Race (biology) · Social science · Sociology · Women of color · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

• Theorizing and Researching Intersectionality

  G Valentine•The Professional Geographer•2007

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• Mapping the Margins

  Kimberlé Crenshaw, Kimberlé W Crenshaw•Stanford Law Review•1991

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