INTERSECTIONAL STUDIES OF GENDER AND SEXUALITYINCLUSIVE APPROACHES FOR RESEARCH

Abstract

Intersectionality stands as one of the most consequential theoretical frameworks in contemporary studies on gender and sexuality. Emerging primarily from Black feminist theory and critical legal studies, intersectionality offers a sophisticated analytical lens for understanding how multiple dimensions of social identity and position intersect. Rather than treating gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, age and other social categories as separate or independent variables, intersectionality reveals how they are dynamically co-constructed through inter-connected social structures, institutions and systems of power(Jorba and Sa).