· 2022· Review
On Intersectionality: Essential Writings
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Kimberlé Crenshaw's seminal concept of intersectionality, developed from black feminist and critical legal theory, is presented in a new collection of her key essays, offering a framework to understand and address multiple forms of power, disadvantage, and inequality.
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Key points
- Intersectionality, coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, explains how multiple social forces and identities interact to create power and disadvantage.
- The concept originates from black feminist and critical legal theory.
- The book compiles Crenshaw's key essays, offering a comprehensive introduction to her work.
- It serves as a crucial resource for understanding inequality and advocating for social change.
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Abstract
For more than twenty years, scholars, activists, educators, and lawyers – inside and outside of the United States – have employed the concept of intersectionality both to describe problems of inequality and to fashion concrete solutions. In particular, as the Washington Post reported recently, “the term has been used by social activists as both a rallying cry for more expansive progressive movements and a chastisement for their limitations.” Drawing on black feminist and critical legal theory, Kimberlé Crenshaw developed the concept of intersectionality, a term she coined to speak to the multiple social forces, social identities, and ideological instruments through which power and disadvantage are expressed and legitimized.\nIn this comprehensive and accessible introduction to Crenshaw’s work, readers will find key essays and articles that have defined the concept of intersectionality, collected together for the first time. The book includes a sweeping new introduction by Crenshaw as well as prefaces that contextualize each of the chapters. For anyone interested in movement politics and advocacy, or in racial justice and gender equity, On Intersectionality will be compulsory reading from one of the most brilliant theorists of our time.
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