The Institutionalization of Intersectionality within Women’s Studies

The Institutionalization of Intersectionality within Women’s Studies
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The Institutionalization of Intersectionality within Women’s Studies
The book chapter “Introduction: feeling black feminism” by Jennifer Nash restructures the manner in which black feminists have appropriated intersectionality as their primary political and intellectual contribution to women’s studies. As a self-identified Black feminist, Nash grapples with the movement’s defensiveness about the institutional history and contemporary use of intersectionality in universities and popular culture. She argues that efforts by black feminists to police the usage and circulation of intersectionality as the sole property of black women has impeded intellectual development. Black feminism has been problematically characterized by protection and defensiveness of intersectionality, thereby making ...