Intersecciones y entrecruzamientos. Transitando de binarismos a pluralidades

Abstract

The manuscript presents a review of the theoretical perspectives on intersections and crossings which have opened up discussion on intersections, hybridities, mixtures and fluidities. To the existing field of gender studies, feminists, masculinities and LGTBIQ+, we propose to add the theoretical trajectories of crossing in order to open them up to dialogue, and to apply them in dialogue critically and creatively. We review intellectual proposals from different areas of knowledge: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Néstor García Canclini, Hommi Bhabha and Nancy Fraser; our aim is to tension the sex- gender normativities which prevail in our cultural order, and which are the basis on which the pluralities which form a part of social life are excluded. The works referred to share this critical attitude to binary thinking: a de-idealisation of the pure, the native, identity, fixedness, the monolithic subject. They do not believe in the fixed categories of modernity, but share the perspective of dynamism, flows and the permanent reconfiguration of otherness/alterity. Our reading of intellectuals translates into some proposals – and questions – to extend the theoretical-conceptual corpus in the field of gender studies.