Since its introduction in 1989, the term “intersectionality” has become a buzzword in the world of gender and development and has emerged as a key theoretical framework in feminist scholarship . Coined by an American race scholar Kimberle Crenshaw (1989), “it is a theoretical framework for understanding how multiple social identities such as race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and disability intersect at the micro level of individual experience to reflect the 'interconnecting systems of privilege and oppression (i.e. racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism) at the macrostructural level' (Bowleg, 2012, p. 1267). In simpler words, it gave theoretical legitimacy to the already established idea of multiple discrimination addressed by anMcCall (2005, cited in Nash, 2008, p. 4) notes that “despite the emergence of intersectionality as a major research paradigm in women's studies and elsewhere, there has been little discussion of how to study intersectionality, that is, of its methodology.” Two, the reliance on Black women as prototypical intersectional subjects. “This dependency leads to Black women being treated as a unitary, monolithic entity, that is, differences between Black women, including class and sexuality, are obscured in order to present “Black women” as an opposing category to both “white” and “black” men. ” (Nash, 2008, p. 8). Three, the vague definition of intersectionality. Nash argues that intersectional theory has obscured the question of whether all identities are intersectional or whether only highly marginalized individuals have an intersectional identity. Zack ( 2005) argues that “all women are intersectional subjects, precisely because of the possibility that their femininity (already a socially disadvantaged position) intersects with other social positions to multiply the disadvantage” (Zack, 2005, cited in Nash, 2008, page 10).This unresolved dispute makes it unclear whether intersectionality is a theory of marginalized subjectivity or a generalized theory of identity. Fourth, the coherence between intersectionality and lived experiences of multiple identities Nash, 2008, p. 6) highlight the “need to evaluate whether intersectionality accurately describes lived experiences of identity and to develop methodological tools that address the myriad intersections that constitute
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