Interseccionalidad = Intersectionality

[EN] Intersectionality is a paradigm that gained increasing popularity in the Anglo-Saxon scholarship for the past twenty-five years. Its conceptual genealogy and its connection with counter-hegemonic feminist theories are briefly illustrated here. It is described how intersectionality originated wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: La Barbera, MariaCaterina
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2017
Country:España
Institution:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repository:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/258310
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/258310
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Intersectionality
Equality
Multiple discrimination
Gender
Sexuality
Race
Nationality
Class
Dis-ability
Interseccionalidad
Igualdad
Discriminación múltiple
Género
Sexualidad
Raza
Nacionalidad
Clase
Dis-capacidad
http://metadata.un.org/sdg/10
Reduce inequality within and among countries
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Summary:[EN] Intersectionality is a paradigm that gained increasing popularity in the Anglo-Saxon scholarship for the past twenty-five years. Its conceptual genealogy and its connection with counter-hegemonic feminist theories are briefly illustrated here. It is described how intersectionality originated within the framework of Critical Legal Studies in the US socio-legal context of the 1970s. Intersectionality is presented as an analytical category to identify how the intersection of social structures (gender, sexuality, race, nationality, class and dis-ability) generates complex situations of discrimination that are maintained and reproduced at the structural, political and discursive levels. It finally emphasizes the potential of intersectionality as a tool to uncover of social exclusion unintentionally reproduced and reinforced by law and public policies and include the substantive dimension of equality