intersectionality
/ɪntəsɛkʃəˈnalɪti
/noun [mass noun]
The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage: through an awareness of intersectionality, we can better acknowledge and ground the differences among us...
- The commonality and normativity problems are often grouped as issues in intersectionality.
- Intersectionality may be accommodated through a structural analysis of gender.
- Intersectionality might be more broadly useful as a way of mediating the tension between assertions of multiple identity and the ongoing necessity of group politics.