The Press also features an extensive regional publishing program under its Quarry Books imprint. and Helms Mills, J. Leslie McCall heralded intersectionality as “the most important the-oretical contribution that women’s studies...has made.” (2005, 1771). 2013 Clark, A., and L. McCall. Check out using a credit card or bank account with. Academia.edu no longer supports Internet Explorer. Leslie McCall stresses intersectionality’s importance, calling it ‘ythe most important theoretical contribution that women’s studies, in conjunction with related fields, has made so far’ (McCall, 2005: 1771). INTERSECTIONALITY - Volume 10 Issue 2 ... Leslie McCall and Averil Y. Clarke remind readers that the terrain upon which the prism works need not be so constrained. McCall is the author of two books: Complex Inequality: Gender, Class, and Race in the New Economy (2001), and The Undeserving Rich: American Beliefs about Inequality, Opportunity, and Redistribution (2013). Commentary on The Complexity of Intersectionality, 67. option. Leslie McCall (2005) and Ange-Marie Hancock (2007) each classify different ways of understanding intersectionality, arguing for expanding the concept from its frequent focus on groups and identities. Leslie McCall stresses intersectionality's importance, calling it ' ... the most important theoretical contribution that women's studies, in conjunction with related fields, has made so far' (McCall… Mercer, D., Paludi, M., Mills, A.J. Since its coinage in Crenshaw’s work in the late 1980s, … This ‘important theoretical contribution’ has become the ‘gold standard’ multi- The aim of this commentary is to outline and present a critique of her attempt to deal with the question of intersectionality. 1771-1800. https://doi.org/10.1086/426800 © 2017 Indiana University Press Krishnadas and Didi Herman (eds) Intersectionality and Beyond: Law, power and the politics of location (Routledge-Cavendish New York 2008). 2 Although some work has been undertaken with the concept of intersectionality in feminist analytic philosophy, most of the research has been conducted by feminists in the social sciences and other feminist theorists not necessarily from within the analytical philosophy tradition. Women in Culture & Soc'y 785 (2013) However, despite its enormous success appealing to a wide audience; the absence of feminist methodologies for the use of intersectionality is con-cerning. Leslie McCall is a professor of sociology and political science The Graduate Center/CUNY and associate director for the Stone Center for Socio-Economic Inequality. McCall, L 2005, ' The complexity of intersectionality ', Signs, vol. Kathy Davis, Intersectionality as Buzzword: A Sociology of Science Perspective on What Makes a Feminist Theory Successful, 9 FEMINIST THEORY 67, 77 (2008). Intersectionality has become one of feminist and critical race theory’s most generative concepts. challenge of considering the debate about what intersectionality means. Sumi Cho with Kimberlé Crenshaw and Leslie McCall, Intersectionality Studies: Introduction, in Special Issue on Intersectionality, 38 Signs: J. (2016)  `Intersectionality at the intersection in Bendl, R., Bleijenbergh, I., Henttonen, E., and Mills, A. J. Read your article online and download the PDF from your email or your account. Ethics & the Environment is an interdisciplinary forum for theoretical and practical articles, discussions, reviews, and book reviews in the broad area encompassed by environmental ethics, including conceptual approaches in ethical theory and ecological philosophy, such as deep ecology and ecological feminism as they pertain to such issues as environmental education and management, ecological economies, and ecosystem health. Inter- View Complexity of Intersectionality.pdf from CS 136 at COMSATS Institute Of Information Technology. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. ), Oxford Handbook on Diversity in Organizations,’ Oxford: Oxford University Press. For terms and use, please refer to our Terms and Conditions All Rights Reserved. Recommended Citation. Leslie McCall, an American sociologist who addresses this topic in a way that can be fruitful for feminist analytic philosophers. MacKinnon’s interpretation of intersectionality as a dynamic. Routledge-Cavendish Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. pp. To browse Academia.edu and the wider internet faster and more securely, please take a few seconds to upgrade your browser. For variants of intersectionality, I refer to Leslie McCall’s (2005) terms: anticategorical, intracategorical and intercategorical, the last reduced to “categorical approach,” which I refer to as the multiplicative approach, as multiplicative interaction terms are the key element. We publish books and journals that will matter 20 or even a hundred years from now – titles that make a difference today and will live on into the future through their reverberations in the minds of teachers and writers. Sorry, preview is currently unavailable. This is the case of Leslie McCall, an American sociologist who addresses this topic in a way that can be fruitful … Shuddhabrata Sengupta, “I/Me/Mine–Intersectional Identities as Negotiated Minefields,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31, no. Intersectionality is only or largely about Black women, or only about race and gender. intersectionality the dominant paradigm through which feminist theory has analyzed difference; Leslie McCall argues that intersectionality might be considered “the most important theoretical contribution that women’s studies, in conjunction with other fields, has made so far” (McCall 2005,1771). With its longstanding commitment to intersectional analysis, ecofeminism has always concerned itself with understanding the unique experiences of those who face discrimination, but it is only recently that ecofeminists have come to label their work as explicitly intersectional. 3. Nikol Alexander-Floyd argues that Leslie McCall’s widely cited article “The Complexity of Intersectionality” “disappears black women and their scholarly contributions; more pointedly, her analysis does violence to the progenitors of intersectionality by subverting their aims and objectives.” 3. JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, JPASS®, Artstor®, Reveal Digital™ and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA. Request Permissions. 3, pp. Leslie McCall, The Complexity of Intersectionality, 30 SIGNS: J. The term was coined by black feminist scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989. (WeAll 292883), Teaching Feminist Philosophy on Race and Gender: Beyond the Additive Approach? 826). Leslie McCall The Complexity of Intersectionality S ince critics first alleged that feminism claimed to speak universally for all women, feminist researchers have been acutely aware of the limi-tations of gender as a single analytical category. Identities most commonly referenced in the fourth wave of feminisminclude race, gender, sex, sexuality, class, abil… “woman” and “black”) do not exist independently of each other, and that each informs the others, often creating a complex convergence of oppression ( Leigh Chandler) Source: Misty McPhetridge, BSSW. 1. 30, no. Leslie McCall | Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality. 800 y Cho, Crenshaw, and McCall. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. In line with this argument, Leslie McCall argued that ' […] despite the emergence of intersectionality as a major paradigm of research in women's studies and elsewhere, there has been little discussion of how to study intersectionality, that is, of its methodology' (McCall, 2005: 1771, emphasis in original). In fact, feminists are perhaps alone in the academy in the extent to which they have embraced She is the author of Complex Inequality: Gender, Class, and Race in the New Economy (2001) The Complexity of Intersectionality Leslie McCall Leslie McCall 6:36 - I received my Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. Intersectionality: A Foundations and Frontiers Reader by Patrick R. Grzanka Intersectionality: A Foundations and Frontiers Reader is an accessible, primary-source driven exploration of intersectionality in sociology and related fields. Purchase this issue for $20.00 USD. 3 (Spring 2006): 629–39. Intersectionality recognizes that identity markers (e.g. [5] Leslie McCall, a leading intersectionality theorist, argues that the introduction of the intersectionality theory was vital to sociology, claiming that before its development, there was little research that I will begin by reviewing the genealogy of intersectionality and ecofeminism, before exploring the current directions which intersectional ecofeminism is taking and the limitations which challenge intersectional theorisation. This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. / The complexity of intersectionality.Intersectionality and Beyond: Law, Power and the Politics of Location. Indiana University Press was founded in 1950 and is today recognized internationally as a leading academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences. 3 Sumi Cho, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall, ‘Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis’ (2013) 38 Signs 785, 787 Although each affirms the important contributions made by intersectional 49-76 McCall, Leslie. In her article, … I will demonstrate the importance of an intersectional Indian ecofeminist approach, by exploring the complex circumstances surrounding the management of menstrual hygiene amongst young women in rural India: an issue which if approached non-intersectionally, would effectively silence their struggle. 1. MacKinnon’s illustration of intersectionality as a method of legal analysis in a wide range of cases involving harms to women in minority communities is one such example with both theoretical and practical im- plications. https://doi.org/10.2979/ethicsenviro.22.1.04, Access everything in the JPASS collection, Download up to 10 article PDFs to save and keep, Download up to 120 article PDFs to save and keep. (eds. 3 (2005): 1771–1800. Leslie McCall The Complexity of Intersectionality S that feminism claimed to speak universally Marta Jorba. Leslie McCall, “The Complexity of Intersectionality,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 30, no. While the theory began as an exploration, primarily, of the oppression of black women within society and the ways in which they both exist at an intersection, and experience intersecting layers of different forms of oppression, today the analysis has expanded to include many more aspects of social identity. WOMEN & CULTURE SOC’Y 1771, 1771 (2005). Leslie McCall. You can download the paper by clicking the button above. IU Press's major subject areas include African, African American, Asian, cultural, Jewish and Holocaust, Middle East, Russian and East European, and women's and gender studies; anthropology, film, history, bioethics, music, paleontology, philanthropy, philosophy, and religion. It is one of the largest public university presses, as measured by titles and income level. -I work at Northwestern University -Wrote Complexity of Intersectionaility Intersectionality Intercategorical complexity -This is the most important A special issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society edited by Sumi Cho, Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall—“Intersectionality: Theorizing Power, Empowering Theory” (2013, volume 38, issue 4)—provides a timely assessment and improved understanding about intersectionality. 4. This paper will examine the changing nature of ecofeminism and the importance of continuing to work within an intersectional framework. 4. Select a purchase Departments of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies Rutgers University. ©2000-2021 ITHAKA. Go to Table The Summer 2013 issue of Signs, Intersectionality: Theorizing Power, Empowering Theory, guest edited by Sumi Cho, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall, provides a timely and critical assessment of this pathbreaking concept. of Contents. Intersectionality is an identitarian framework. 5. 2014 McCall, L. “The Political Meanings of Social Class Inequality.” Social Currents 1(1): 25-34 (invited for inaugural issue). Access supplemental materials and multimedia. Intersectionality … “Intersectionality and Social Explanation in Social Science Research.” DuBois Review 10(2): 349-363 (invited for thematic issue on intersectionality). 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