Intersectionality Summary

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The article Intersectionality by Vivian M. May describe the origins, development and current challenges of this approach, that is often misunderstood in all its dimensions within the feminist movement and WGS.
Although intersectionality began to be introduced in the analysis of the situation of women in the late nineteenth century by black women -who presented a new, transformative form to explore their life experiences and recognized the use of this approach by their Latinas and Native American peers-, it was not until the twentieth century when it was formally recognized and introduced into the women’s movement, evading this historical fact and ignoring the previous work made by feminists of color.
Epistemologically, intersectionality provides …show more content…
Because this, there is a tendency to believe intersectionality as an impossible achievement due to its level of difficulty, or to consider this analysis as lack of sense or incomprehensible.
It is also mentioned how the intersectional approach is at risk to be evaded in the U.S. feminist movement because of a transnational approach, as it vanishes the visibility of the singularities inside the local politics, without considering how transnationality can be improved with intersectionality, providing a wider understanding of the women's life context.
Furthermore, intersectionality requires the understanding of the ways that strategies for liberation can be at the same time oppressive and dominant, establishing hierarchies and perpetuating supremacy. This statement collides with ideas that oppose intersectionality to social transformation, relating this concept to the division of knowledge and
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