L’intersectionnalité, une menace pour la sociologie (et les sociologues français) des classes sociales ?

Since the translation, in 2005, of one of Kimberlé W. Crenshaw’s articles introducing intersectionality into the field of French social sciences, the word and the theoretical perspective it labels have been the object of great mistrust on the part of many sociologists claiming a critical position. T...

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Main Author: Isabelle Clair
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Series:Astérion
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/asterion/8601
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description Since the translation, in 2005, of one of Kimberlé W. Crenshaw’s articles introducing intersectionality into the field of French social sciences, the word and the theoretical perspective it labels have been the object of great mistrust on the part of many sociologists claiming a critical position. The lexicon of threat is mobilised to disqualify the intersectional approach – much more than to discuss it – because its aim, or effect, is to purely and simply erase social class as a fundamental category of analysis. The article goes back over the reasons for a trial that has become more and more noisy over the years, made of maintained ignorance and refusal of controversy.
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L’intersectionnalité, une menace pour la sociologie (et les sociologues français) des classes sociales ?
Astérion
intersectionality
sociology
feminist theory
controversy
France
title L’intersectionnalité, une menace pour la sociologie (et les sociologues français) des classes sociales ?
title_full L’intersectionnalité, une menace pour la sociologie (et les sociologues français) des classes sociales ?
title_fullStr L’intersectionnalité, une menace pour la sociologie (et les sociologues français) des classes sociales ?
title_full_unstemmed L’intersectionnalité, une menace pour la sociologie (et les sociologues français) des classes sociales ?
title_short L’intersectionnalité, une menace pour la sociologie (et les sociologues français) des classes sociales ?
title_sort l intersectionnalite une menace pour la sociologie et les sociologues francais des classes sociales
topic intersectionality
sociology
feminist theory
controversy
France
url https://journals.openedition.org/asterion/8601
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