Authors: Sumi Cho, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall

Publication: Signs. vol. 38, no. 4. pp. 785-810

Date: Summer 2013

Abstract: 

As intersectionality has emerged in a number of discursive spaces, the projects and debates that have accompanied its travel have converged into a burgeoning field of intersectional studies. This field can be usefully framed as representing three loosely defined sets of engagements: the first consisting of applications of an intersectional framework or investigations of intersectional dynamics, the second consisting of discursive debates about the scope and content of intersectionality as a theoretical and methodological paradigm, and the third consisting of political interventions employing an intersectional lens.

Link: Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis (PDF)