LAUSR.org creates dashboard-style pages of related content for over 1.5 million academic articles. Sign Up to like articles & get recommendations!

The positive side of co-optation? Intersectionality: a conversation between Inderpal Grewal and Srila Roy

Photo by vita_belvita from unsplash

If co-optation is a loss of feminism – about a feminist subject or strategy within a social movement that has moved to other movements and institutions not thought of as… Click to show full abstract

If co-optation is a loss of feminism – about a feminist subject or strategy within a social movement that has moved to other movements and institutions not thought of as feminist – then we have to acknowledge that feminism has never been about a subject singularly produced through gender. Theories of intersectionality or postcolonialism also reveal a feminism that is not purely articulated by one social movement solely based on gender, but a gendered subject intimately co-constructed with other social movements and institutions.

Keywords: optation; side optation; intersectionality; optation intersectionality; intersectionality conversation; positive side

Journal Title: International Feminist Journal of Politics
Year Published: 2017

Link to full text (if available)


Share on Social Media:                               Sign Up to like & get
recommendations!

Related content

More Information              News              Social Media              Video              Recommended



                Click one of the above tabs to view related content.