Questions of intersectionality

Reflections on the current debate in German gender studies

Bibliographic Data

ID8104802
AuthorsIna Kerner (0000-0001-9974-4648, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume19
Issue2
Pages203-218
Publication date2012-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Women s Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1350-5068 • E-ISSN: 1461-7420
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1350506811434666
OpenAlexW2150957345
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited47

Over the last few years, intersectionality has become not only one of the most prominent topics of feminist theory in Europe, but also one of its most serious challenges, pressing us to acknowledge that European nations are not homogeneous entities and calling for more complex accounts of gender relations and forms of gender injustice. Currently, many scholars embrace intersectionality as a concept, but there is no consensus about what adequate theoretical accounts of intersectionality with regard to European contexts should look like. Drawing on theoretical positions that have been put forward within the current intersectionality debate in German-speaking countries, this article addresses two questions that are currently at stake: the what-question of intersectionality, asking what it is, which forms of inequality we focus on as intersecting; and the how-question of intersectionality, focusing on how we should conceptualize what is happening when forms of inequality intersect

German · Injustice · Intersectionality · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · German legal, social, and political studies · Law · Philosophy · Sociology and Education Studies

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