Interseccionalidad = Intersectionality

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ID5864746
AuthorsMariacaterina La Barbera (0000-0002-2065-6686, Universidad Nebrija, corresponding author), María Caterina La Barbera
Year2017
Volume12
Issue0
Pages191-198
Publication date2017-03-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEUNOMÍA Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2253-6655 • E-ISSN: 2253-6655
PublisherUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.20318/eunomia.2017.3651
OpenAlexW4231362141
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Intersectionality is a paradigm that gained increasing popularity in the Anglo-Saxon scholarship for the past twenty-five years. Its conceptual genealogy and its connection with counter-hegemonic feminist theories are briefly illustrated here. It is described how intersectionality originated within the framework of Critical Legal Studies in the US socio-legal context of the 1970s. Intersectionality is presented as an analytical category to identify how the intersection of social structures (gender, sexuality, race, nationality, class and dis-ability) generates complex situations of discrimination that are maintained and reproduced at the structural, political and discursive levels. It finally emphasizes the potential of intersectionality as a tool to uncover of social exclusion unintentionally reproduced and reinforced by law and public policies and include the substantive dimension of equality. doi: https://doi.org/10.20318/eunomia.2017.3651

Humanities · Intersectionality · Sociology · Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Violence, Rights in Latin America · Human Rights and Immigration · Philosophy

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