Undermining Intersectionality: The Perils of Powerblind Feminism

Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective

“…Intersectionality has profoundly altered contemporary feminist movements, and this can be seen, for example, in the intertwining of gender and class and the role of indigenous peoples in mobilizations in Argentina (Cavallero & Gago, 2021; Gago, 2017, 2020); in the role of religion in Turkey (Mutluer, 2020), Iran (Asadi Zeidabadi, 2023), and Palestine (Stagni, 2023); and in the intersection of class, gender, and racialization in the critics posed by the feminist strike, which has been launched in many countries around the world on March 8 in recent years (Stanivukovic et al., 2023; Tormos‐Aponte et al., 2023).…”

“…Intersectionality, then, has changed the composition of feminist movements, for example, with the inclusion of trans people and the critique of gender binarism (Bey, 2021; Espineira & Bourcier, 2016; Green & Bey, 2017); it has changed the frames—and thus the way systems of oppression, the subjects of oppression, and the causes are interpreted (Feree, 2009, 2011); it has changed the repertoires of action, and thus what kind of strategies and tactics are adopted to contest systems of oppression, and again the feminist strike is an example (Tormos‐Aponte et al., 2023). The impetus for the mobilizations comes from Argentina, a country in the Global South, and has thus strongly conditioned the characteristics of contemporary feminist mobilizations (Gago, 2020).…”

“…One of the main innovations was, in 2017, the launch of the feminist strike on March 8, International Women's Day (Gago, 2020). Since then, the global feminist strike has been launched every year in many countries around the world (Campillo, 2019; Draper & Mason‐Deese, 2018; Montanelli & Hardt, 2018; Nickerson & Wujohktsang, 2020; Stanivukovic et al., 2023; Tormos‐Aponte et al., 2023). The goal of the strike is to draw attention to the various ways that productive labor is exploited, which in turn affects class status.…”

To be accountable: The whiteness of feminist organisation studies

“…Women of colour, Islamic feminists and Indigenous scholars have a sustained history of confronting white feminists and feminisms on a range of counts: excluding women of colour's lives, theories and problems; ignoring our collusion in racism, imperialism and colonialism and being oppressors as well as oppressed; marginalising faith; devaluing the research of women of colour; hoarding academic resources; asset-stripping the academic achievements of women of colour; and (e.g. Amos et al, 1984;Ang, 2020;Carby, 1982;hooks, 2000, Lewis andHemmings, 2019;Mahmood, 2011;Moreton-Robinson, 2000;Tomlinson, 2019).…”

Von der Geschlechterpolitik zur diversitätsorientierten Gleichstellungspolitik im österreichischen Hochschul- und Forschungsraum

“…Diese Forderung erhob bereits Mathilde Vaerting, die erste Professorin für Pädagogik im deutschsprachigen Raum, in ihrer Antritts vorlesung(Vaerting, 1923 / 24;Bramberger, 2022) und sie legte mit ihrem als Habilitationsschrift eingereichten Werk ein Beispiel dafür vor. Ein weiterer Aspekt des kritischen Umgangs mit Wissen ist Reflexivität, die auf das eigene Denken und Handeln rückbezogen ist: Die Reflexion von powerblindness in der (feministischen) Forschung(Tomlinson, 2019; Bramberger, im Erscheinen), führt dazu, hegemoniale Praktiken und Usancen zu relativieren und zu verändern, zum Beispiel in der Auswahl der präferierten Autor*innen, die als Referenzen herangezogen und als gültig erachtet werden ("wer wird zitiert? ").Zahlreiche aktuelle Forschungen an derPädagogischen Hochschule Salzburg orientieren sich am Konzept von Gender Inclusion (Kreitz-Sandberg, 2016), das die genannten Ebenen und deren Zusammenspiel akzentuiert, um Geschlechtergerechtigkeit umfassend zu kontextualisieren und zu diskutieren.…”