Intersectionality

What is the predominant way of conceptualizing the relation between systems of oppression in feminist theory?

• D. Simultaneity

• A. Binary political relation

• C. Intersectionality

• B. Singular process

Who is the founder of Critical Race Theory in the U.S. legal academy?

• C. Jean Ait Belkhir

• A. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

• B. Anna Carastathis

• D. Patricia Hill Collins

What is the metaphor of intersecting categories of discrimination introduced and later elaborated by?

• B. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

• A. Anna Carastathis

• D. Patricia Hill Collins

• C. Jean Ait Belkhir

According to the text, what is the aim of the essay?

• C. To promote essentialist constructions

• D. To ignore the origins of intersectionality

• B. To clarify the origins of intersectionality as a metaphor

• A. To critique feminist theory

What does intersectionality theory aim to render visible?

• A. Phenomenological experiences of privileged groups

• D. Simplistic unitary categories

• B. Ontological anchor in interlocking social structures

• C. Categorial exclusion

According to the text, what is the third aspect of the positive definition of intersectionality?

• A. Political intersectionality

• D. Analytical intersectionality

• B. Representational intersectionality

• C. Structural intersectionality

Who argues that the model of intersectionality does not illuminate how social categories of gender and race function in the lived experience of concrete subjects?

• D. Alice Ludvig

• C. Dorthe Staunæs

• B. Sherene Razack

• A. Martha Gimenez

According to the text, what is the model of identity that structural intersectionality offers?

• C. Meso-level theory

• B. Micro-level theory

• A. Macro-level theory

• D. Subjectification theory

Who argues that the endlessness of differences seems to be a weak point in intersectional theory?

• B. Shuddhabrata Sengupta

• D. Martha Gimenez

• A. Alice Ludvig

• C. Kathryn Russell

According to the text, what is the distinction that Sherene Razack maintains should be maintained between intersecting and interlocking approaches?

• D. Structural and political

• B. Phenomenological and ontological

• A. Micro-level and macro-level

• C. Analytical and representational