Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries offers a sustained, interdisciplinary exploration of intersectional ideas, histories, and practices that no other text does. Deftly synthesizing much of the existing literatures on intersectionality, one of the most significant theoretical and political precepts of our time, May invites us to confront a disconcerting problem: though intersectionality is widely known, acclaimed, and applied, it is often construed in ways that depoliticize, undercut, or even violate its most basic premises. May cogently demonstrates how intersectionality has been repeatedly resisted, misunderstood, and misapplied: provocatively, she shows the degree to which intersectionality is often undone or undermined by supporters and critics alike. A clarion call to engage intersectionality�s radical ideas, histories, and justice orientations more meaningfully, Pursuing Intersectionality answers the basic questions surrounding intersectionality, attends to its historical roots in Black feminist theory and politics, and offers insights and strategies from across the disciplines for bracketing dominant logics and for orienting toward intersectional dispositions and practices.

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Intersectionality: Theories, Histories, Practices

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Vivian M. May

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

Contemporary sociological perspectives, New York, NY, 2015

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

1, 2015

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Cover
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Title 4
Copyright 5
Contents 6
Preface 8
Acknowledgments 14
Introduction: The Case for Intersectionality and the Question of Intersectionality Backlash 16
1 What Is Intersectionality? Matrix Thinking in a Single-Axis World 33
2 Intersectionality’s Call to Break from Single-Axis Thinking: Still Unheard, Still Unanswered? 78
3 Why Are Intersectionality Critiques All the Rage? 113
4 Intersectionality—Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Slippages in Intersectionality Applications 156
5 Being “Biased” toward Intersectionality: A Call for Epistemic Defiance 201
6 Fostering an Intersectional Disposition: Strategies for Pursuing and Practicing Intersectionality 241
References 268
Index 294

"Race/Class/Gender otherwise known as Intersectionality is one of the most important theoretical precepts developed in the past two decades in women's and gender studies and in the social sciences and humanities. Yet the concept remains elusive and poorly understood. This book seeks to solve these problems by answering the basic questions surrounding intersectionality in prose undergraduate students can understand and appreciate"-- Provided by publisher

2025-10-27