Description
| Product ID: | 9781496212481 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
| Title: | Intersectionality |
| Subtitle: | Origins, Contestations, Horizons |
| Authors: | Author: Anna Carastathis |
| Page Count: | 300 |
| Subjects: | Social groups, communities and identities, Social groups, Political science and theory, Political science & theory |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating While “intersectionality” tends to circulate merely as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins other critical voices in urging a more careful reading. Challenging the narratives of arrival that surround it, Carastathis argues that intersectionality is a horizon, illuminating ways of thinking that have yet to be realized. A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Intersectionality intervenes in the field of intersectionality studies: the integrative examination of the effects of racial, gendered, and class power on people’s lives. While “intersectionality” tends to circulate merely as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins other critical voices in urging a more careful reading. Challenging the narratives of arrival that surround it, Carastathis argues that intersectionality is a horizon, illuminating ways of thinking that have yet to be realized; consequently, calls to “go beyond” intersectionality are premature. A provisional interpretation of intersectionality can disorient habits of essentialism, categorical purity, and prototypicality and overcome dynamics of segregation and subordination in political movements. Through a close reading of critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s germinal texts, published more than twenty-five years ago, Carastathis urges analytic clarity, contextual rigor, and a politicized, historicized understanding of this pervasive concept. Intersectionality’s roots in social justice movements and critical intellectual projects—specifically black feminism—must be retraced and synthesized with a decolonial analysis so that its potential to actualize coalitions can be enacted. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Nebraska Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Nebraska Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-05-01 |
