By Vivian M. May

ISBN-10: 0415808391

ISBN-13: 9780415808392

ISBN-10: 0415808405

ISBN-13: 9780415808408

Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries deals a sustained, interdisciplinary exploration of intersectional principles, histories, and practices that no different textual content does. Deftly synthesizing a lot of the prevailing literatures on intersectionality, the most major theoretical and political precepts of our time, could invitations us to confront a disconcerting challenge: although intersectionality is well known, acclaimed, and utilized, it is usually construed in ways in which depoliticize, undercut, or maybe violate its most elementary premises. may well cogently demonstrates how intersectionality has been time and again resisted, misunderstood, and misapplied: provocatively, she indicates the measure to which intersectionality is frequently undone or undermined by way of supporters and critics alike. A clarion name to have interaction intersectionality’s radical principles, histories, and justice orientations extra meaningfully, Pursuing Intersectionality solutions the elemental questions surrounding intersectionality, attends to its old roots in Black feminist concept and politics, and gives insights and techniques from around the disciplines for bracketing dominant logics and for orienting towards intersectional tendencies and practices.

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