Disputes about how to understand intersectional relations often pivot around the tension
between separateness and inseparability, where some scholars emphasize the need to …

“What does queer theory teach us about x?” ask Berlant and Warner (1995).“As difficult as it
would be to spell out programmatic content for an answer, this simple question still has the …

In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory,
epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge …

Originally conceived by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 as a tool for the analysis of the ways in
which different forms of social inequality, oppression and discrimination interact and overlap …

Intersectionality theory was first developed by Black feminists Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989,
1991) and Patricia Hill Collins (1990) as an analytical lens for theorizing the oppressions …

As critical frame analysis has shown, even when concepts are expressed in the same words,
they may have different meanings (Verloo 2006). Intersectionality is itself one of these …

This article reviews the debate on 'intersectionality'as the dominant approach in gender
studies, with an emphasis on the politics of representation. The debate on intersectionality …

Feminist theory has addressed relations of difference, heterogeneity, and hierarchy within
gender groups as well as the entanglement of various forms of differentiation, power, and …

The Metaphysics of Gender is a book about gender essentialism: What it is and why it might
be true. It opens with the question: What is gender essentialism? The first chapter …

As a Black scholar writing about women's issues in the mid-1980s, Thornton Dill joined with
several colleagues in calling for a feminist theoretical paradigm that would expose the …