Kimberlé Crenshaw

A major publishing event, the collected writings of the groundbreaking scholar who “first coined intersectionality as a political framework” (Salon) For more than twenty years, scholars, activists, educators, and lawyers—inside and outside of the United States—have employed the concept of intersectionality both to describe problems of inequality and to fashion concrete solutions. In particular, as the Washington Post reported recently, “the term has been used by social activists as both a rallying cry for more expansive progressive movements and a chastisement for their limitations.” Drawing on black feminist and critical legal theory, Kimberlé Crenshaw developed the concept of intersectionality, a term she coined to speak to the multiple social forces, social identities, and ideological instruments through which power and disadvantage are expressed and legitimized. In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to Crenshaw’s work, readers will find key essays and articles that have defined the concept of intersectionality, collected together for the first time. The book includes a sweeping new introduction by Crenshaw as well as prefaces that contextualize each of the chapters. For anyone interested in movement politics and advocacy, or in racial justice and gender equity, On Intersectionality will be compulsory reading from one of the most brilliant theorists of our time.

Essential Writings

On Intersectionality

Neil Gotanda

Kendall Thomas

Garry Peller

Smoke and Mirrors is a passionate, richly nuanced work that shows television as a circus, a wishing well, and a cure for loneliness. Ranging from Ed Sullivan to cyberspace, from kid shows to cable, and from the cheap thrills of "action adventure" to the solemn boredom of PBS pledge week, Leonard argues for a whole new way of thinking about television. For Leonard, the situation comedy is a socializing agency, the talk show is a legitimating agency, the made-for-television movie is the last redoubt of social conscience, and television criticism itself is the last refuge of time-serving thugs and postmodernists. Instead of scapegoating television as the cause of crime in our streets, stupidity in our schools, and spectacle rather than substance in our government, Leonard sees something else inside the box: an echo chamber and a feedback loop, a medium neither wholly innocent of nor entirely responsible for the frantic disorder it brings into our homes.

The Key Writings that Formed the Movement

Critical Race Theory

Mapping the Margins

Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex

Andrea J. Ritchie

Rachel Anspach

Rachel Gilmer

Luke Harris

"... gathers stories of Black women who have been killed by police and who have experienced gender-specific forms of police violence [such as sexual assault], provides some analytical frames for understanding their experiences, and broadens dominant conceptions of who experiences state violence and what it looks like... a resource to help ensure that Black women's stories are integrated into demands for justice, policy responses to police violence, and media representations of victims and survivors of police brutality... concludes with recommendations for engaging communities in conversation and advocacy around Black women's experiences of police violence, considering race and gender in policy initiatives to combat state violence, and adopting policies to end sexual abuse and harassment by police officers."--Website

Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women

Say Her Name

Andrew Ross

Manning Marable

Nellie Y. McKay

Cornel West

Nell Irvin Painter

Patricia J. Williams

Homi K. Bhabha

Michael Thelwell

Margaret A. Burnham

Paula Giddings

A. Leon Higginbotham

Claudia Brodsky Lacour

Wahneema H. Lubiano

Gayle Pemberton

Christine Stansell

Carol Miller Swain

Eighteen essays by prominent scholars reflect on the cultural, historical, political, personal, legal, sexual, and linguistic implications of the Thomas hearings and Hill's accusations

Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality

Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power

Daniel Hosang

Critical insights from artists, activists, and scholars on the frontlines of the fight against racism and Covid-19.

The Intersectional Vulnerabilities That the Twin Pandemics Lay Bare

Under the Blacklight

Kehinde Andrews

Devon Carbado

Annabel Wilson

A ground-breaking collection applying Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality to the black diasporic experience in Britain.

Blackness at the Intersection

Virginie Despentes

Simone de Beauvoir

Angela Y. Davis

Olympe de Gouges

Mariarosa Dalla Costa

Selma James

Clara Zetkin

Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen

Alexandra Kollontai

Julieta Paredes

EZLN

Zohra Drif

Maria Galindo

belle hooks

Madeleine Vernet

Ungleiche Geschlechterverhältnisse sind noch immer tief in unsere Gesellschaft eingeschrieben. Der Kampf für die Befreiung der Frau von patriarchaler Unterdrückung, wirtschaftlicher Abhängigkeit und Sexismus sowie für soziale Gleichheit steht nach wie vor auf der Tagesordnung jeder wahrhaften emanzipativen und progressiven Bewegung. Die Wiener Forscherin Julia Harnoncourt versammelt in ihrem Band "Für die Befreiung der Frau" Schriften und Analysen von Aktivistinnen und Theoretikerinnen aus zwei Jahrhunderten des Kampfes. Von den Kämpferinnen der ArbeiterInnenbewegung bis zu den Feministinnen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, von der afroamerikanischen Frauenbewegung bis zu den Vertreterinnen des Globalen Südens, von Clara Zetkin und Simone de Beauvoir bis zur Zweiten Frauenbewegung der 1970er Jahre wird versucht, möglichst viele verschiedene Analyse- und Lösungsansätze zu Wort kommen zu lassen. So zum Beispiel die Frage nach biologischem und sozialem Geschlecht oder nach gerechter Verteilung. Ein weiteres wichtiges Thema ist das Verhältnis von Frauen zur Arbeit, wobei Haus- und Pflegearbeit besonders kontrovers diskutiert wird. Der Slogan "Das Private ist politisch" betrifft nicht nur die Hausarbeit, sondern auch den weiblichen Körper, Liebe und Sexualität. Im Kampf gegen die Ungleichheit stellt sich schließlich auch die Frage, mit wem überhaupt zusammen gekämpft werden kann. Können Männer die Interessen von Frauen vertreten? Und können von Rassismus oder globaler Ungleichheit betroffene Frauen mit weißen Frauen aus dem Norden gemeinsam um ihre Rechte kämpfen, wenn alle unterschiedliche Erfahrungen machen? Das Buch "Befreiung der Frau" versammelt verschiedene Perspektiven und Antworten aus unterschiedlichen feministischen Kämpfen und Regionen der Welt.

Texte zur Geschichte eines weltweiten Kampfes

Befreiung der Frau

Dean Spade

Mary Joe Frug

Katherine Franke

 Cecilia Ezpeleta

 Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso

Patricia Gonzalez Prado

Eduardo Mattio

Violeta Cánaves

Virginia Cano

Craig Willse

Emiliano Litardo

Blas Radi

¿Cuáles son las vinculaciones entre los feminismos y el derecho? ¿Qué entendemos por “feminismos jurídicos”? ¿Cuáles son las implicancias de pensar y hacer derecho desde este anclaje político? ¿Qué supone una lectura feminista jurídica situada? ¿Cómo se articulan las vías de recepción e inventiva feminista entre textos y problemas del Norte y Sur globales? Estas cuestiones, entre tantas otras, sustentan la arquitectura del libro. La traducción al castellano de cuatro artículos centrales del feminismo jurídico estadounidense, en las plumas de Kimberlé Crenshaw, Mary Joe Frug, Katherine Franke, Dean Spade y Craig Willse, revelan una apuesta por expandir los canales de circulación de discusiones labradas por los Feminist Legal Studies. Los comentarios que prosiguen a esas traducciones resguardan que esa expansión se dirija hacia recepciones posibles y a nuevas escrituras en estudios feministas del derecho en América Latina. Cada uno de los textos, las traducciones y sus comentarios delimita y propone asuntos dilemáticos que nos interpelan y nos mueven a pensar en las continuidades y disrupciones de los feminismos jurídicos según las latitudes, los momentos, los escenarios jurídico-políticos y los encuadres de la academia legal. Cada conjunto de problemas señala diversos recorridos de la producción jurídica feminista y marca una serie de contenidos y preguntas vigentes que ayudan a delinear la práctica docente, la praxis activista, la escritura y los debates iusfeministas.

Interpelaciones y debates

Feminismos jurídicos

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