Undermining intersectionality : the perils of powerblind feminism / Barbara Tomlinson.
| Author/creator | Tomlinson, Barbara MacMichael, 1946- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2019. |
| Copyright Date | ©2019 |
| Description | 1 online resource (ix, 270 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Interrogating Critiques of Intersectionality -- Category -- Metaphor Anxiety -- Legitimating Powerblindness -- The Vise of Geometry -- Intersectionality Telephone and the Canyon of Echoes -- The Invisible White Woman -- Colonizing Intersectionality -- Affect and the Epistemic Machine -- Turning Off the Epistemic Machine. |
| Abstract | "In this provocative book, esteemed scholar Barbara Tomlinson asserts that intersectionality--the idea that categories such as gender, race, and class create overlapping systems of oppression--is consistently misinterpreted in feminist argument. Despite becoming a central theme in feminist scholarship and activism, Tomlinson believes dominant feminism has failed to fully understand the concept. Undermining Intersectionality reveals that this apparent paradox is the result of the disturbing racial politics underlying more than two decades of widely-cited critiques of intersectionality produced by prominent white feminist scholars who have been insufficiently attentive to racial dynamics. As such, feminist critiques of intersectionality repeatedly reinforce racial hierarchies, undermining academic feminism's supposed commitment to social justice. Tomlinson offers a persuasive analysis of the rhetorics and conventions of argument used in these critiques to demonstrate their systematic reliance on "powerblind" discursive practices. Undermining Intersectionality concludes by presenting suggestions about concrete steps feminist researchers, readers, authors, and editors can take to promote more productive and principled engagements with intersectional thinking"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract | "This project examines the discursive practices of feminist critiques of intersectionality, arguing that they reinforce racial hierarchies, undermine feminism's stated commitments to social justice, and register a perception by white feminists that they have lost control of a certain kind of feminism that centers racially unmarked women"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 20, 2018). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Tomlinson, Barbara MacMichael, 1946- Undermining intersectionality. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2018 9781439916506 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2018033632 |
| ISBN | 9781439916520 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1439916527 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (hardcover alkaline paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |