Metaphors of intersectionality: reframing the debate with a new image

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• dc.contributor.author Rodó de Zárate, Maria
• dc.contributor.author Jorba, Marta
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-06-12T11:16:14Z
• dc.date.available 2024-06-12T11:16:14Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description.abstract Whereas intersectionality presents a fruitful framework for theoretical and empirical research, some of its fundamental features present great confusion. The term ‘intersectionality’ and its metaphor of the crossroads seem to reproduce what it aims to avoid: conceiving categories as separate. Despite the attempts for developing new metaphors that illustrate the mutual constitution relation among categories, gender, race or class keep being imagined as discrete units that intersect, mix or combine. Here we identify two main problems in metaphors: the lack of differentiation between positions and effects and the problem of reification. We then present a new metaphor that overcomes these two problems: a basket of apples. We argue that considering social positions as the diverse properties of different apples avoids reification by considering categories as properties and not as objects themselves, and at the same time it allows us to think about the effects dimension from a plural and contextual approach. With this shift, we propose a reframing of the discussion in debates on intersectionality theory on the relation among categories, their in/separability and fragmentation.
• dc.description.sponsorship The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial supportfor the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: Financial support for this work was provided by postdoctoral fellows IJCI-2017-34112 (M.J.) and IJCI-2016-27422 (M. R-Z). MJ also acknowledges the support of the project Social Metaphysics: PGC2018-094563-B-I00 MCIU/AEI/FEDER UE.
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• dc.identifier.citation Rodó-Zárate M, Jorba M. Metaphors of intersectionality: reframing the debate with a new image. Eur J Womens Stud. 2022 Feb;29(1):23-38. DOI: 10.1177/1350506820930734
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350506820930734
• dc.identifier.issn 1350-5068
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60445
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher SAGE Publications
• dc.relation.ispartof European Journal of Women's Studies. 2022 Feb;29(1):23-38
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PGC2018-094563-B-I00
• dc.rights Rodó-Zárate M, Jorba M. Metaphors of intersectionality: reframing the debate with a new image. European journal of women's studies. 2022 Feb;29(1):23-38. © The Author(s) 2020. DOI: 10.1177/1350506820930734
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• dc.subject.keyword Feminist theory
• dc.subject.keyword Gender
• dc.subject.keyword Intersectionality
• dc.subject.keyword Metaphor
• dc.subject.keyword Reification
• dc.subject.keyword Social category
• dc.title Metaphors of intersectionality: reframing the debate with a new image
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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