Intersectionality

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ID23691346
AuthorsSarah O'connor, Sarah E O’Connor (0000-0003-0356-6213, Boston University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages1-4
Publication date2015-12-30
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118663202.wberen695
OpenAlexW4235143340
ISBN9781118663202
LanguageEN
References cited10

Intersectionality is a concept used to challenge treatments of race, gender, sexuality, and class as exclusive categories. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw coined the term in 1989, in an effort to reject single‐axis criticisms of discrimination and reconceptualize marginalization as cross‐cutting and compounded; yet the ideas behind the concept itself have been the focus of black feminist and lesbian advocacy since the liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Intersectionality as an evolving theory, discipline, and practice has led to a more complex and nuanced understanding of the hierarchy of privilege in the United States.

Class (philosophy) · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Hierarchy · Human sexuality · Intersectionality · Lesbian · Political science · Privilege (computing) · Race (biology) · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Philosophy

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