Open AccessIntersectionality as embodiment
Author(s) -
Sune Qvotrup Jensen,
Camilla Elg
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
kvinder, køn and forskning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2245-6937
pISSN - 0907-6182
DOI - 10.7146/kkf.v0i2-3.28012
Subject(s) - intersectionality , embodied cognition , agency (philosophy) , sociology , lived experience , epistemology , gender studies , psychology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , social science
Intersectionality as embodiment. This article explores intersectionality as embodiment, arguing that by taking embodiment into account broader possibilities of intersectional analysis can be unfolded. Inspired by phenomenological theories of embodied experience and the mimetic faculty, the article suggests that intersectionality can be understood as embodied experience. Following this thinking embodiment is radically conditioned as well as a site of agency. This has implications for the understanding of structures, agency as well as their interrelation.