1st Edition

Interpreting Intersectionality Interpretative Politics in Metacommentaries

By Amund Rake Hoffart Copyright 2024
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

Against the backdrop of the emergence of intersectionality as a dominant paradigm in feminist scholarship and activism, this book explores the genre of metacommentaries as critical responses to the development of intersectionality as a paradigm. With attention to the dispersal of intersectionality into ever-newer contexts – and the missteps and breakdowns that occur during this process – it... Read more

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Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Metacommentaries and the charge of misapplication

2 Telling intersectional stories

3 Intersectional intersectionality

4 Ambivalent histories

5 The quest for the right metaphor

6 Conclusion: On the interpretative politics of intersectionality

References

Index

Biography

Amund Rake Hoffart is Researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo.