Intersectionality by Hill Collins Patricia; Bilge Sirma;

Author:Hill Collins, Patricia; Bilge, Sirma;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2016-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

5 Considerable attention within intersectional scholarship has been devoted to thinking through what kind of concept intersectionality is. To take a small sample of the terminology that is associated with conceptualizing intersectionality itself, intersectionality scholars write about intersectionality as a perspective (Browne and Misra 2003; Steinbugler, Press, and Dias 2006), a concept (Knapp 2005), and a type of analysis (Nash 2008; Yuval-Davis 2006). Other scholars focus on intersectionality's placement in the research process, analyzing intersectionality as a methodological approach (Steinbugler, Press, and Dias 2006; Yuval-Davis 2006), an analytic perspective (Steinbugler, Press, and Dias 2006), a research paradigm (Bowleg 2008; Hancock 2007b), or a measurable variable and type of data (Bowleg 2008). Other scholars understand intersectionality not as a social theory that explains their data but rather as something we personally “experience” (Bowleg 2008). This opens the door to the many narrative works, e.g., autobiographies, auto-ethnographies and ethnographies, which are inspired in some fashion by intersectionality. While this ambiguity and slippage reflects a field in formation, one criticism of intersectionality is that this imprecise terminology fosters uneven outcomes. For example, the recent literature on intersectionality, methodology, and empirical validity (see, e.g., Bowleg 2008; Hancock 2007a, 2007b) is likely a response to the critique that intersectionality scholarship lacks a precise (Nash 2008) and diverse (McCall 2005) methodological approach. Is intersectionality a social theory? Not yet. But the corpus of intersectionality's scholarship does aim to explain the social world.

6 Because there has been such a vacuum in scholarship that explicitly examines how intersectionality affects research methodology, Leslie McCall's taxonomy of intersectional categorization has received considerable attention within intersectionality scholarship (McCall 2005). Looking beyond intersectionality's mainstream, however, yields other epistemological insights. Feminist scholar Chela Sandoval contends that methodology is not politically impartial, proposing instead a “methodology of the oppressed” (Sandoval 2000). As discussed in chapter 2, activist scholarship raises new questions for intersectionality and methodology (Hale 2008).

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