Intersectionality and ameliorative analyses of race and gender

• Autores: Karen Jones
• Localización: Philosophical Studies, ISSN-e 1573-0883, Vol. 171, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 99-107
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • This discussion of Sally Haslanger�s recent book, Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique (Oxford 2012), investigates how her theory of race and gender handles the problem of intersectionality; that is, the problem of how to understand the ways in which one�s location in multiple socially constructed categories affects one�s lived experiences, social roles, and relative privilege or disadvantage. Haslanger defines race and gender as locations within hierarchical social structures. This high-level structural analysis allows her to find commonality without claiming that, for example, all women share social roles or psychological characteristics. However, race-based oppression seems sometimes to cancel out gender-based privilege; thus raising the question of how, on Haslanger�s model, we are to understand race and gender working together.