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AUTHOR
Mariacaterina La Barbera
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Una reflexión crítica a través del pensamiento de Susan Okin sobre género y justicia.
2007
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Revisiting the anti-Female Genital Mutilation Feminist Discourse
2009
Diritto & Questioni Pubbliche
Per una reinterpretazione del diritto naturale: la prospettiva femminista.
2008
Intersectional Gender. Thinking about Gender and Cultural Difference in the Global Society.
2009
This paper offers locatedness, contextuality, and interconnectedness as crucial concepts for the analysis of gender and cultural differences in global societies. Taking into account the different voices of feminism, and being aware of the perils of essentialization, the concept of “intersectional gender” is proposed as analytical tool. The adjective “intersectional” expresses the idea that gender is inherently constituted and simultaneously shaped by race/ethnicity, culture/religion, and economic conditions. Intersectional gender, defined not as an additive but rather as a constitutive process, un- derscores that any form of gender discrimination is originated and interconnected with other f…