Intersectionality : origins, contestations, horizons / Anna Carastathis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carastathis, Anna, 1981- author.

Series:

Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality.

Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Women's studies.

Women, Black.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.

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 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 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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Intersectionality, Black Feminist Thought, and Women-of-Color Organizing

2. Basements and Intersections

3. Intersectionality as a Provisional Concept

4. Critical Engagements with Intersectionality

5. Identities as Coalitions

6. Intersectionality and Decolonial Feminism

Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803296626

0803296622

9780803296640

0803296649

OCLC:

954203788