Gender Transformative Methodologies CoP. Reimagining intersectionality: Institutionalization of a concept, its complexity, illusions and contradictions

For many gender specialists, intersectional research represents one of the most important theoretical contributions of gender and feminist analyses. This is because such research acknowledges complexity and hierarchy, and division and difference among members of any identity category, including, but...

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Main Authors: Feldman, Shelley, Farnworth, Cathy Rozel, Bailey, Arwen
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174086
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author Feldman, Shelley
Farnworth, Cathy Rozel
Bailey, Arwen
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description For many gender specialists, intersectional research represents one of the most important theoretical contributions of gender and feminist analyses. This is because such research acknowledges complexity and hierarchy, and division and difference among members of any identity category, including, but not limited, to women. Intersectional research also acknowledges and seeks to understand power as a relational phenomenon within social groups as well as between them. In practice, this means that thinking with an intersectional lens exposes how all identity categories including race, class, and gender, but also, sexuality, ability, nationality and ethnicity, and indigenous/migrant are not homogenous categories. Rather, categories marking difference refer to populations that entail relations of both oppression and domination, opportunities, and constraints. Significantly, as well, an intersectional approach not only presumes that identities are always multiple but, also, that they can only be understood as intertwined, intersecting, and reciprocal rather than as simply additive. By recognizing this complexity, an intersectionality lens asks researchers to be cognizant of within category variation, especially when generalizing across comparative cases. "Importantly, in my view, intersectional research recognizes data collection as a procedural question and exposes how, why, and what questions we ask to illuminate the kind of evidence that can respond to our research question. In contrast, I view analyses as a processual issue that corresponds to the connection between how we understand identities as social relations on the one hand, and the practices that might lead to institutional and structural transformations of these relations and environments on the other."
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spelling CGSpace1740862025-08-15T09:36:24Z Gender Transformative Methodologies CoP. Reimagining intersectionality: Institutionalization of a concept, its complexity, illusions and contradictions Feldman, Shelley Farnworth, Cathy Rozel Bailey, Arwen gender gender-transformative approaches research methods For many gender specialists, intersectional research represents one of the most important theoretical contributions of gender and feminist analyses. This is because such research acknowledges complexity and hierarchy, and division and difference among members of any identity category, including, but not limited, to women. Intersectional research also acknowledges and seeks to understand power as a relational phenomenon within social groups as well as between them. In practice, this means that thinking with an intersectional lens exposes how all identity categories including race, class, and gender, but also, sexuality, ability, nationality and ethnicity, and indigenous/migrant are not homogenous categories. Rather, categories marking difference refer to populations that entail relations of both oppression and domination, opportunities, and constraints. Significantly, as well, an intersectional approach not only presumes that identities are always multiple but, also, that they can only be understood as intertwined, intersecting, and reciprocal rather than as simply additive. By recognizing this complexity, an intersectionality lens asks researchers to be cognizant of within category variation, especially when generalizing across comparative cases. "Importantly, in my view, intersectional research recognizes data collection as a procedural question and exposes how, why, and what questions we ask to illuminate the kind of evidence that can respond to our research question. In contrast, I view analyses as a processual issue that corresponds to the connection between how we understand identities as social relations on the one hand, and the practices that might lead to institutional and structural transformations of these relations and environments on the other." 2024-08-06 2025-04-09T07:10:17Z 2025-04-09T07:10:17Z Presentation https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174086 en Limited Access Feldman, S.; Farnworth, C.R.; Bailey, A. (2024) Gender Transformative Methodologies CoP. Reimagining intersectionality: Institutionalization of a concept, its complexity, illusions and contradictions. Presented on 6 August 2024.
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Gender Transformative Methodologies CoP. Reimagining intersectionality: Institutionalization of a concept, its complexity, illusions and contradictions
title Gender Transformative Methodologies CoP. Reimagining intersectionality: Institutionalization of a concept, its complexity, illusions and contradictions
title_full Gender Transformative Methodologies CoP. Reimagining intersectionality: Institutionalization of a concept, its complexity, illusions and contradictions
title_fullStr Gender Transformative Methodologies CoP. Reimagining intersectionality: Institutionalization of a concept, its complexity, illusions and contradictions
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title_short Gender Transformative Methodologies CoP. Reimagining intersectionality: Institutionalization of a concept, its complexity, illusions and contradictions
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gender-transformative approaches
research methods
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