THEORETICAL-CRITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF INTERSECTIONALITY:

a critical praxis

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/periferia.2024.82593

Keywords:

Intersectionality, Critical praxis , Relationality

Abstract

This is a review of the book "Intersectionality", published in 2021 by Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge, in which the authors develop the concept of intersectionality and elucidate questions about its use. Is intersectionality a research method, an analysis tool, or a branch of feminism? What are the uses of intersectionality and its main contradictions? These questions raised in the book are a valuable theoretical-critical contribution in the search for understanding oppressions and social problems, capturing the dynamics that exist between the axes of subordination. The book seeks to understand how race, class, gender, physical ability, nationality, sexuality, citizenship status, ethnicity, age group, and other categories reveal the complexity of the body as a social construction. In short, this is a book that provokes an immersion in the complexities of intersectionality, above all, in its function as a tool capable of unraveling the mechanisms of oppression and promoting social justice.

Author Biographies

Bárbara Silva dos Santos Pereira, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Graduada em licenciatura em Pedagogia pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Mestra em Educação pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação (PROPED/UERJ) e atualmente aluna do curso de doutorado do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação (PROPED/UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Graziela Cristina Gonçalves , Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

Graduada em Licenciatura em Letras pela Universidade do Vale Itajaí (UNIVALI), Especialista em Diversidade Étnico-racial (AUPEX), em Gênero e Diversidade Escolar pela Faculdade São Braz, Mestra em Educação no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação (UDESC) e atualmente aluna do curso de doutorado do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação (UDESC), Santa Catarina, Brasil.

References

COLLINS, Patricia Hill; BILGE, Sirma. Interseccionalidade. Tradução de Rane Souza. 1. ed. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2021.

RATTS, Alex; RIOS, Flávia. Lélia Gonzalez. São Paulo: Selo Negro, 2010.

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Published

30.08.2024

How to Cite

Silva dos Santos Pereira, B., & Cristina Gonçalves , G. (2024). THEORETICAL-CRITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF INTERSECTIONALITY: : a critical praxis. Periferia, 16(1), e82593. https://doi.org/10.12957/periferia.2024.82593

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2024): Periferia

Section

Review

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