Men and Masculinities· 2026Q1
Raewyn Connell’s Critique of “Intersectionality”: A Reconsideration
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This essay argues Raewyn Connell's early reservations about "intersectionality" offer valuable guidance for refining current intersectional research, particularly by incorporating insights from feminist ethnographies of the Global South, racial capitalism theories, and ethnomethodology.
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- Raewyn Connell's early reservations about "intersectionality" are revisited.
- These reservations are proposed as guardrails for current intersectional research.
- The essay suggests integrating feminist ethnographies from the Global South, racial capitalism theories, and ethnomethodology.
- This integration aims to foster a more processual and context-driven approach to intersectional analysis.
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Abstract
Since the publication of Raewyn Connell’s Masculinities in 1995, feminist scholars have extensively elaborated her notion of multiple masculinities with insights from intersectional feminism. While acknowledging the many points of resonance between these two important frameworks, this essay turns attention to Connell’s own reservation about the notion of “intersectionality.” Connell’s cautionary stance, I argue, can provide us useful guardrails for examining the interplay of multiple systems of oppression and thus enrich the ongoing development of intersectional research programs that many of us are already invested in. Taking up Collins’s call for incorporating ideas from other knowledge projects into intersectional feminism, I suggest that three bodies of literature can help us address Connell’s concerns and advance a more processual and context-driven approach: feminist ethnographies of/from the Global South, contingent-contextual theories of racial capitalism, and ethnomethodological analyses of categorization.
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