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Intersectionality in Context: Three Cases for the Specificity of Intersectionality from the Perspective of Feminists in the Americas

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Intersectionality und Kritik

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The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking. (The Combahee River Collective, 1977: 13)

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Diaz, S., Clark Mane, R., González, M. (2013). Intersectionality in Context: Three Cases for the Specificity of Intersectionality from the Perspective of Feminists in the Americas. In: Kallenberg, V., Meyer, J., Müller, J. (eds) Intersectionality und Kritik. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-93168-5_4

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