This paper explores some similarities between Feminism, especially intersectionality theory, Post-colonial studies, and Participatory Alternative Development. While the three fields deal with different subject matters they have commonalities such as methodology, historical development, and activism. The three fields have as their goal, not only the accumulation of knowledge but also to strive f...

This article argues for several shifts in perspective in order to advance a comparative, transnational account of how gender, race, ethnicity, class and nation align in practice to overcome insularity and particularism inherent to many extant intersectional theories. An extensive review of feminist theories finds that much US scholarship decontextualizes intersectionality, takingfor-granted the...

This essay uses narratives from the author’s life (childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood) to claim that regional identity is an overlooked aspect of intersectionality. By focusing on intersections queerness U.S. South, this approaches region as example Yep’s “thickening” intersectionality, using poetry narrative make case a complicating, messy, inseparable intersectional including preconc...

The current editorial for the cluster of papers entitled ‘Gender and health inequalities: intersections with other relevant axes of oppression’ includes a final list of twenty accepted papers, concerning gender inequalities in health, and how they interact at different lifetime stages with diverse social determinants of health such as socio-economic status, ethnicity or territory, as well as ot...

In this essay I discuss a specific notion that has become particularly influential in framing the discussion of identity and politics – intersectionality. show original formulation was crucially intertwined with debates on class politics. After shedding light “prehistory” intersectionality black feminism, formulations concept works Kimberlé Crenshaw Patricia Hill Collins. A focus “oppression” a...