Intersectionality: A Theoretical And Methodological Paradigm

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The term intersectionality is now used as a theory or methodology to identify, study, and analyze real-world problems of various categories such like politics, society, gender, and education. The field of intersectionality can be divided in to three “engagements” or “frameworks”: 1). applications of intersectional frameworks; 2). intersectionality as a theoretical and methodological paradigm; 3). political interventions (Cho, Crenshaw, and McCall 2013). More particularly, McCall listed three approaches, anticategorical complexity, intracategorical complexity, and intercategorical complexity (McCall 2005). Although the three “subfields” or the three approaches mainly focus on studying and understanding intersectionality as a