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Contemporary Intersectionality Theory Frameworks

  • Frameworks that recognize the impact of geographic, historic, and sociocultural moments on identities due to the influence of cultural interactions both reinforcing and troubling identity demarcations.
  • Acknowledging that identity categories have variation within them.
  • Intersectionality more cotemporally brings to light the power of activism and scholarly work within and across identity categories.
  • Contemporary Intersectionality Theory is more concerned with questions of power and inequities and notes these questions are essential to the political work the theory was designed to do.
  • Wendy Smooth's five tenets of contemporary intersectionality theory.

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Updated 2023-05-17

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