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“Diversity within” : the problems with “intersectional” white feminism in practice
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Christoffersen, Ashlee and Emejulu, Akwugo (2023) “Diversity within” : the problems with “intersectional” white feminism in practice. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 30 (2). pp. 630-653. doi:10.1093/sp/jxac044 ISSN 1468-2893.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac044
Abstract
In intersectionality studies, debates about the additive versus constitutive nature of intersectionality are long-established. This article attempts to intervene in these conversations by examining how additive, “diversity within” intersectionality works in practice. Across feminist academia, advocacy, and policymaking, there is a widely held perception that among the nongovernmental organizations constituted around identity-based inequalities (feminist, racial justice, migrants, disability, and LGBTQI+ rights), it is the feminist sector that best advocates for and attempts to practice intersectionality. This is related to the appropriation of Black feminist theories of intersectionality which emerged from grassroots activism and Critical Race scholarship as “feminist” theory, wherein feminist is always-already constructed as white. Drawing on empirical research with equality organizations working with disabled women and trans women in England and Scotland, this article suggests that the opposite is true: the additive intersectionality practiced by the white-led feminist sector serves to uphold white supremacy and other structural inequalities.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Intersectionality (Sociology) , Feminist theory , White feminism | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) | ||||||
ISSN: | 1468-2893 | ||||||
Official Date: | July 2023 | ||||||
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Volume: | 30 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 630-653 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/sp/jxac044 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 March 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 March 2023 |
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