9781496212481-1496212487-Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

ISBN-13: 9781496212481
ISBN-10: 1496212487
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Anna Carastathis
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Format: Paperback 300 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781496212481
ISBN-10: 1496212487
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Anna Carastathis
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Format: Paperback 300 pages

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Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality) (ISBN-13: 9781496212481 and ISBN-10: 1496212487), written by authors Anna Carastathis, was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Social Sciences (Feminist Theory, Women's Studies) books. You can easily purchase or rent Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality) (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Social Sciences books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.28.

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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.

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