Intersectionality : origins, contestations, horizons /

Intersectionality : origins, contestations, horizons /

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Author / Creator:	Carastathis, Anna, 1981- author.
Imprint:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Description:	1 online resource (xxiii, 272 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Expanding frontiers, interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality Expanding frontiers.
Subject:	Feminist theory. Women's studies. Women, Black. African Americans -- Race identity. Intersectionality (Sociology) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General. Intersectionality (Sociology) African Americans -- Race identity. Feminist theory. Women, Black. Women's studies. Intersektionalität Feminismus Schwarze Frau Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11383757

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ISBN:	9780803296626 0803296622 9780803296633 0803296630 9780803296640 0803296649 9780803285552 0803285558
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-261) and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Summary:	"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" circulates as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins other critical voices to urge 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, categorial purity, and prototypicality and overcome dynamics of segregation and subordination in political movements. Through a close reading of critical race theorist Kimberle 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 widely traveling 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 its radical potential to actualize coalitions can be enacted"-- "Intersectionality critically examines the mainstreaming and institutionalization of this concept, offering a renewed understanding through close readings of some of its generative texts"--
Other form:	Print version: Carastathis, Anna, 1981- Intersectionality. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016 9780803285552
Standard no.:	99972374857