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Complexities and Complications: Intersections of Class and Sexuality

Taylor, Yvette·2010·Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality
DOI 10.1057/9780230304093_3
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Here I explore some questions and dilemmas raised by considering social class, gender and sexuality within the same interconnecting research frame-work. I begin with attention to the theoretical development of intersectionality, arising from feminist conceptualisations of ‘differences that matter’, and the ways these are included in or excluded from research agendas. Exploring the limits and possibilities of intersectionality, I ask what counts as ‘intersectional’? Arguing that interconnections between class and sexuality have often been neglected in such moves, I seek to progress beyond intersectionality as a theoretical paradigm, towards understanding intersectionality as a lived experience. I draw upon research on working-class lesbian lives (Taylor, 2007a) and lesbian and gay parenting (Taylor, 2009a) to bridge the gap between theorisation of intersectionality and its research application, where inequalities are seen as more than simply a list of ‘additions’ but as multiply constitutive, complex and complicated. Although an intersectional analysis poses challenges, it remains imperative, where, as Haschemi Yekani et al. (Chapter 4, this volume) have pointed out, the task is to ‘try again’, attempted here in uncovering experiential aspects of intersectionality.

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Authors
Taylor, Y.
Affiliations
Newcastle University (GB)
Corresponding author
Taylor, Yvette
ORCID
Taylor, Yvette
Venue
Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Published
2010
Pages
37-55
DOI
10.1057/9780230304093_3
OpenAlex
W3210273070
Cited by
21
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3
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FWCI
2.05
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
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www.springer.com/tdm (unspecified)
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Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Gender, Health, and Social Inequality
Keywords
intersectionality, social class, sexuality, gender, lived experience, feminist theory, inequality, class and sexuality

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