Crossing Boundaries During Peace and Conflict Transforming identity
The book takes the reader into the world of women who become actively involved in various mobilization processes in the peace and conflict situations in Chiapas and in Northern Ireland. Detailing how women cross identity boundaries in regions of conflict,
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The Politics of Intersectionality series builds on the long-standing insights of intersectionality theory from a vast variety of disciplinary perspectives. As a globally utilitzed analytical framework for understanding issues of social justice, Leslie McCall, Mary Hawkesworth, and others argue that intersectionality is arguably the most important theoretical contribution of women’s and gender studies to date. Indeed the imprint of intersectional analysis can be easily found on innovations in equality legislation, human rights, and development discourses. The history of what is now called “intersectional thinking” is long. In fact, prior to its mainstreaming, intersectionality analysis was carried for many years mainly by black and other racialized women who, from their situated gaze, perceived as absurd, not just misleading, any attempt by feminists and others to homogenize women’s situation, particularly in conceptualizing such situations as analogous to that of racialized others. As Brah and Phoenix point out, many black feminists fulfilled significant roles in the development of intersectional analysis, such as the Combahee River Collective, the black lesbian feminist organization from Boston, who pointed out the need of developing an integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that major systems of oppression interlock rather than operate separately. However the term “intersectionality” itself emerged nominally from the field of critical legal studies, where critical race feminist Kimberle Williams Crenshaw wrote two pathbreaking articles, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics” and “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” At nearly the same time, social theorist Patricia Hill Collins was preparing her landmark work, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment, which characterized intersections of race, class, and gender as mutually reinforcing sites of power relations. Both Crenshaw and Collins gave the name “intersectionality” to a far larger and more ethnically diverse trajectory of work, now global in nature, that speaks truth to power sited differentially rather than centralized in a single locus. What could also be called intersectional analysis was in fact developing at roughly the same
10.1057/9781137468741 - Crossing Boundaries during Peace and Conflict, Melanie Hoewer
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The Politics of Intersectionality
10.1057/9781137468741 - Crossing Boundaries during Peace and Conflict, Melanie Hoewer
Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to University of Sydney - PalgraveConnect - 2015-08-14
time among European and postcolonial feminists, including, for example, Anthias and Yuval-Davis (1983; 1992); Brah (1996); Essed (1991); Ifekwunigwe (1999); Lutz (1991); Meekosha, and Min-ha (1
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