Feminist Perspectives and Intersectionality

The second online session in the SWDTP Feminist Perspectives webinar series 2022.

About the session

For many, intersectionality should not be considered as a separate feminist topic, but rather as a framework andor concept that infiltrates all areas of feminist thought and analysis.

This webinar will:

• Provide an introduction to the history of intersectionality
• Illustrate how this concept, which was generated from within Black feminist thought, is being developed and put to use today
• Ask you to consider whether it should it be used by white feminists and others in ways that include factors other than gender and race such as disabilities, sexualities, social class
• Stimulate debate about the validity of expanding the concept and explore why controversies exist in this field
• Consider the future directions of the concept of intersectionality, given current concerns with decolonising feminist approaches
• Provide a space to reflect on how these ideas around intersectionality might shape our own research

In addition, the international perspectives, experiences, actions and studies presented in this session will allow us to think about how popular usage has and has not been expanded to other international contexts and to consider its comparative usefulness for conveying the experiences of other ethnic minority and indigenous groups in vastly different global contexts.

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