... PART I Framing the Issues Intersectionality and Critical Social Theory 1Intersectionality as Critical Inquiry So much has happened since the 1990s that the case for intersectionality no longer needs to be made. A surprising array of academics, activists, policy- makers, digital workers, and in...

...PART I Framing the Issues Intersectionality and Critical Social Theory 1Intersectionality as Critical Inquiry So much has happened since the 1990s that the case for intersectionality no longer needs to be made. A surprising array of academics, activists, policy- makers, digital workers, and in de...

... PART II How Power Matters Intersectionality and Intellectual Re sis tance 3Intersectionality and Resistant Knowledge Proj ects I often won der how differently understandings of critical social theory might have unfolded within Eu ro pean and North American academic insti- tutions had other...

...PART II How Power Matters Intersectionality and Intellectual Re sis tance 3Intersectionality and Resistant Knowledge Proj ects I often won der how differently understandings of critical social theory might have unfolded within Eu ro pean and North American academic insti- tutions had other...

...4Intersectionality and Epistemic Re sis tance When Kimberlé Crenshaw used the term intersectionality in the early 1990s, she had no way of knowing that the idea she saw as being just a meta phor would have such a sweeping impact within activist and academic communi- ties. Crenshaw s contributions...

... PART III Theorizing Intersectionality Social Action as a Way of Knowing 5Intersectionality, Experience, and Community Intersectionality s critical theorizing faces the challenge of defining how it understands and uses the ideas that underpin its own practice. Experi- ence is one such idea, and...

...PART III Theorizing Intersectionality Social Action as a Way of Knowing 5Intersectionality, Experience, and Community Intersectionality s critical theorizing faces the challenge of defining how it understands and uses the ideas that underpin its own practice. Experi- ence is one such idea, and...

... intellectual- activist Pauli Murray (1910 1985). Both thinkers offer analyses of oppression and the meaning of freedom, and significantly for intersectionality, both conceptualize the relationships among race, class, gender, sexuality as part of their analy sis. Yet because they rely on diff er ent ways of...

...PART IV Sharpening Intersectionality s Critical Edge 7Relationality within Intersectionality The idea that race, gender, class, and similar phenomena are maintained through relational pro cesses now functions as such a taken- for- granted tru- ism that intersectionality s insight of recognizing...

...8Intersectionality without Social Justice? Intersectionality is often perceived as fundamentally critical of unjust socie- ties because social justice seems to be so central to many of its proj ects. It certainly seems that intersectionality is on the side of social justice. Social movements for...

...Epilogue Intersectionality and Social Change Intersectionality offers a win dow into thinking about the significance of ideas and social action in fostering social change. Although intersection- ality has been consistently aligned with visionary ideals such as freedom, social justice, equality...

... V _ S T Y L E A N D / AS I N T E R S E C T I O N A L I T Y This page intentionally left blank THE TOXIC INTERTWINING OF SMALL-TOWN LIVES IN HAPPY VALLEY Ina Rae HarkCHapter sixteen In her foundational essay on intersectionality, Kimberlé Crenshaw uses several spatial meta phors or analogies to...

... I DO NOT KNOW THAT I FIND MYSELF ANYWHERE The British Heritage Film and Spaces of Intersectionality in Amma Asante s Belle (2013) Sarah Louise SmythCHapter tHirteen In a key moment in Amma Asante s British heritage film Belle (2013), Chief Justice Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) asks his great...

... PART IV Sharpening Intersectionality s Critical Edge 7Relationality within Intersectionality The idea that race, gender, class, and similar phenomena are maintained through relational pro cesses now functions as such a taken- for- granted tru- ism that intersectionality s insight of recognizing...