by Gaia Giuliani
Intersectionality as an episteme, an epistemology, and a method, is essential to the black feminist project of fracturing Universalism within a feminist debate that is totally dominated by US white feminists. Thus, it is necessary to make the peculiarity of black women’s condition emerge. Within the deconstructive project of postmodern feminism, intersectionality becomes necessary to enable feminist scholars and activists to investigate constructions of normative white heteropatriarchy. In order to understand Italy as a fast-changing context and, more importantly, in order to set a political agenda which both contests the status quo and proposes an emancipatory project that goes beyond the nation state and its borders, scholars and critics must work within the framework of intersectionality.
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