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Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas

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Collins, Patricia Hill·2015·Annual Review of Sociology

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Defines intersectionality as a knowledge project attentive to power relations and notes that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age are reciprocally constructing phenomena.

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    Race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but as reciprocally constructing phenomena that shape complex social inequalities.

    “The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but as reciprocally constructing phenomena that in turn shape complex social inequalities.”
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    A general consensus exists about intersectionality's general contours.

    “By now, a general consensus exists about intersectionality's general contours.”
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    Teachers, social workers, parents, policy advocates, university support staff, community organizers, clergy, lawyers, graduate students, and nurses often have an up close and personal relationship to violence, homelessness, hunger, illiteracy, poverty, sexual assault, and similar phenomena.

    “Teachers, social workers, parents, policy advocates, university support staff, community organizers, clergy, lawyers, graduate students, and nurses often have an up close and personal relationship to violence, homelessness, hunger, illiteracy, poverty, sexual assault, and similar phenomena.”
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    Local, grassroots, small-scale, and/or temporary groups that draw upon intersectionality to guide their critical praxis are typically composed of society's overlooked populations: the young, women, people of color, and poor people.

    “Typically, these groups are composed of society's overlooked populations, specifically the young, women, people of color, and poor people.”
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    Public health remains connected to the practices of health care professionals.

    “Because public health remains connected to the practices of health care professionals, the challenge for this field lies in integrating intersectional frameworks into both health care delivery practices and public policies.”
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    The protected categories in human rights gain meaning only in relation to one another.

    “Yet because the protected categories gain meaning only in relation to one another, actualizing human rights means transcending the limitations of a strictly legal statement of human rights.”
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Authors
Collins, P. H.
Affiliations
Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-1315;
Venue
Annual Review of Sociology
Published
2015-08-14
Volume
41
Issue
1
Pages
1-20
ISSN
  • 0360-0572 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-2115
OpenAlex
W2148974647
Cited by
2,419
References
101
Citations by year
2026: 254 · 2025: 320 · 2024: 325 · 2023: 295 · 2022: 287 · 2021: 240 · 2020: 211 · 2019: 220 · 2018: 130 · 2017: 85 · 2016: 38 · 2015: 9
FWCI
28.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
Annual Review of Sociology (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Gender, Health, and Social Inequality
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
Keywords
intersectionality, power relations, social inequality, race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, disability, age, critical praxis, social justice, knowledge production

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