Practicing Intersectionality in Spain

Authors

  • Pilar Goñalons Pons University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Myra Marx Ferree University of Wisconsin-Madison

Abstract

Intersectionality has become a very popular term in academic, policy and activist circles. We understand intersectionality as a theoretical project concerned with elucidating the relationships between different principles of inequality and oppression. We identify three conceptual moves that distinguish intersectionality from other theoretical frameworks about inequality and power: a movement from additive to interactive models, a movement from categorical to process-based frameworks, and a movement from autonomous individuals to embedded social relations as foundations for social theory. We deploy examples related to the paid domestic work in Spain to demonstrate the usefulness of these conceptual moves.

Keywords

Intersectionality, Gender, Class, Migration, Race

Author Biographies

Pilar Goñalons Pons, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Pilar Goñalons Pons is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on gender, migration, family and social inequality. She is currently writing her dissertation thesis that looks at the marketization of care and domestic labor.

Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Myra Marx Ferree is the Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology and Director of the European Union Center of Excellence at the University of Wisconsin, where she is also a member of the Gender and Women’s Studies Department. She is the author of Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics In Global Perspective (Stanford University Press, March 2012). Other recent books include: Global Feminisms: Transnational Women’s Organizing, Activism, and Human Rights (co-edited with Aili Mari Tripp, NYU Press, 2006) and Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the US (with William A. Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards and Dieter Rucht, Cambridge University Press, 2002).

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/qpsicologia.1216

Published

2014-05-31

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