Agency and Ontology within Intersectional Analysis: A Critical Realist Contribution.
The article analyses the historical roots of intersectional theory and argues that the ambiguities and elisions that mark intersectional analysis are a weakness not a strength. It makes an argument for why Archer's morphogenetic approach provides a more secure basis for analysing the overlapping opp...
| Published in: | Journal of Critical Realism Vol. 15; no. 5; pp. 494 - 511 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct2016
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