POLS 4185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Constitutive Equation, Intersectionality

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19 Jun 2018

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Intersectionality Feminisms

Intersectionality theory: troubling the false essentialism and structuralism

Intersectionality feminism refuses to name any given social axis as foundational,

or primary

An additive or cumulative model

Independent, pre-existing, trans-historical categories

The constitutive model

Continuously (re) inventing themselves in relationship with each other

Intersectionality Revised

How precisely do the various axes of oppression intersect? Is there some social

force that compels and shapes that interaction?

Capitalist structures exert real pressures and place real limits – if not fully

subsuming – all its constituent partial relations

A more compelling case for solidarity requires a conception of the diverse-yet-

unified nature of power

Dialectics

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