Abstract
Intersectionality has become a very popular term in academic, policy and activist circles. We understand intersectionality as a theoretical project concerned with elucidating the relationships between different principles of inequality and oppression. We identify three conceptual moves that distinguish intersectionality from other theoretical frameworks about inequality and power: a movement from additive to interactive models, a movement from categorical to process-based frameworks, and a movement from autonomous individuals to embedded social relations as foundations for social theory. We deploy examples related to the paid domestic work in Spain to demonstrate the usefulness of these conceptual moves.
Highlights
Intersectionality, a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, has quickly travelled around the world and has become very popular in academic, policy and activist circles (Crenshaw, 1989)
Intersectionality theories place the unit of analysis at the level of social relations in multi-institutional contexts, in contrast to theoretical frameworks based on the autonomous individual ideal
Intersectionality is a powerful term to signify a theoretical project that elucidates the relationships between different axes of social inequality and relations of power
Summary
Intersectionality, a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, has quickly travelled around the world and has become very popular in academic, policy and activist circles (Crenshaw, 1989). We understand intersectionality as a theoretical approach concerned with elucidating the relationships between different forms of oppression based in social processes associated with salient social categories like gender, sexuality, race, class or age.
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