Celebrating Intersectionality? Debates on a Multi-faceted Concept in Gender Studies: Themes from a Conference

Gendered migration in turbulent times in Iceland

“…Feminist scholars have been prominent in new theorizing on identity and place in the context of increasing global mobility (Silvey 2004), where the concept of intersectionality is increasingly used to capture the multiple relationships constructing personal identity and hierarchical social locations (McCall 2005;Yuval-Davis 2006;Valentine 2007;McDowell 2008;Anthias 2009;Lewis 2009). In geography, Doreen Massey's reconceptualization of spatial identities (e.g.…”

The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender

“…Finally, although most people who embrace poststructuralism will clearly see the limits (or threats) of categorical thinking and the additive nature of misguided intersectionality (as Lewis, 2009, deftly articulates as: "gender + class ++ race + + +"), such thinking has not been fully banished. While there is an attraction to viewing intersectionality as additive, particularly by those who feel that this is one way they can be heard, this ultimately does the project of intersectionality a disservice, because it becomes one person's struggle.…”

Le blanchiment de l’intersectionnalité

“…» tenue à Francfort en 2009. Cette conférence était problématique à plusieurs égards (Lewis 2009) : les organisatrices avaient invité des figures clés de l'intersectionnalité -des universitaires féministes de couleur ou immigrées : Kimberlé Crenshaw, des États-Unis, Ann Phoenix, Gail Lewis et Nira Yuval-Davis, du Royaume-Uni, Gloria Wekker, des Pays-Bas, tout en ignorant les chercheuses et les activistes racialisées en Allemagne, qui avaient pourtant forgé en premier une pensée intersectionnelle dans ce pays (Petzen 2012). Il ne s'agit pas là seulement d'une question d'inclusion/exclusion dans telle ou telle conférence, mais de la constitution des archives intersectionnelles.…”