Celebrating Intersectionality? Debates on a Multi-faceted Concept in Gender Studies: Themes from a Conference
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This short article explores some of the enduring preoccupations, possibilities and dilemmas that continue to engage feminists in varying locations in Europe. It raises questions of the ethics of feminist practice when key concepts and theoretical approaches travel across locations and are taken up in these different contexts to address specific intersectional constellations.
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- Lewis, G.
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- Lewis, Gail
- Venue
- European Journal of Women's Studies
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- SAGE Publications
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- 2009-07-09
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 203-210
- ISSN
- 1350-5068 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7420
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Gender, Health, and Social Inequality
- Keywords
- intersectionality, feminist theory, feminist debates, gender studies
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