Living a Feminist Life
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Sarah Ahmed’s Living a Feminist Life is much more than a farewell to her institutional academic life in the wake of her highly publicized resignation from Goldsmiths, the University of London, in protest of the university’s handling of sexual harassment. Her latest work retains a fierce grip on the spirit of feminist critical theory, while avowing that it is possible and even powerful to ‘leave a life’ that is not feminist.
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Intersectionality notes how social characteristics such as gender, race, class, age, disability, and sexual orientation intersect each other to drive and exacerbate privilege, discrimination, and oppression.
“Based in critical race theory and feminist studies, intersectionality notes how social characteristics such as gender, race, class, age, disability, and sexual orientation intersect each other to drive and exacerbate privilege, discrimination, and oppression (Ahmed, 2017;Crenshaw, 1989).”
From Intersectional climate justice: A conceptual pathway for bridging adaptation planning, transformative action, and social equity (2022) · cites this paper as Ahmed, 2017
In the Introduction, Ahmed calls intersectionality a starting point for explaining how power works and says sexism and sexual oppression cannot be separated from racism, colonial histories, and exploitation under capitalism. This supports the claim’s central point about intersecting forms of oppression, but the passage does not connect the full listed set—including age, disability, and sexual orientation—to intersectionality, or explicitly describe how those intersections exacerbate privilege and discrimination. Page numbers were not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredIntersectionality has been increasingly adopted as an analytical framework in different fields, ranging from gender and feminist studies, and psychology, to organizational studies.
“Intersectionality has been increasingly adopted as an analytical framework in different fields, ranging from gender and feminist studies (Ahmed, 2017;Nash, 2008;Shields, 2008), and psychology (Cole, 2009), to organizational studies (Acker, 2006).”
From Intersectional climate justice: A conceptual pathway for bridging adaptation planning, transformative action, and social equity (2022) · cites this paper as Ahmed, 2017
In the Introduction, “Bringing Feminist Theory Home” (page unavailable), Ahmed treats intersectionality as a starting point for analyzing power within feminism. This supports its use in feminist thought, but the passage does not establish that its adoption as an analytical framework has increased over time. The sentence cites other works for psychology and organizational studies, so those fields are not attributed to Ahmed here. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Ahmed, S.
- Affiliations
- Duke University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ahmed, Sara
- Venue
- Duke University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Pages
- 229-232
- OpenAlex
- W2584530815
- Cited by
- 2,722
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 151.46
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Duke University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Springer eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Keywords
- critical feminist theory, Sarah Ahmed, sexual harassment
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