Intersectionality and feminist thought: historical contributions and contemporary debates about the interlocking of social markers of difference

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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2015v20n2p97

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Intersectionality, Social markers of difference, Inequalities, Intersectional agency

Abstract

This article presents a brief review of the debates concerning the concept of intersectionality among various approaches of the contemporary feminist thought, the women’s studies and the gender theories. Based on the initial contributions of the “Black Feminisms”, this text aims to propose a panorama of the emergent context of the intersectional debate and its main strands of work in the US and UK. Grounded in a literature review of dozens of recent articles, essays and books published in the US and Europe, this text seeks to offer a “summarization” of some of the major contributions that the intersectional analysis has offered to the feminist thought and the social theory as a whole, as well as to propose the notion of “intersectional agency”. Finally, the text presents some critical considerations regarding certain characteristics that cross the field and that are still generating some important questions.

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Carlos Eduardo Henning, Universidade Federal de Goiás - UFG

Doctor in Social Anthropology from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP. Professor at the Universidade Federal de Goiás - UFG.

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2015-12-25

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HENNING, Carlos Eduardo. Intersectionality and feminist thought: historical contributions and contemporary debates about the interlocking of social markers of difference. Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais, Londrina, v. 20, n. 2, p. 97–128, 2015. DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2015v20n2p97. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/22900. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.

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