Intersectionality and Feminist Politics

@article{YuvalDavis2006IntersectionalityAF,
  title={Intersectionality and Feminist Politics},
  author={Nira Yuval‐Davis},
  journal={European Journal of Women's Studies},
  year={2006},
  volume={13},
  pages={193 - 209}
}
  • N. Yuval‐Davis
  • Published 1 August 2006
  • Sociology
  • European Journal of Women's Studies
This article explores various analytical issues involved in conceptualizing the interrelationships of gender, class, race and ethnicity and other social divisions. It compares the debate on these issues that took place in Britain in the 1980s and around the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism. It examines issues such as the relative helpfulness of additive or mutually constitutive models of intersectional social divisions; the different analytical levels at which social divisions need to be… 
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