Kvinder, Køn & Forskning (Jun 2006)

Klassernes fortsatte forsvinden

  • Stine Thidemann Faber

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v0i2-3.28088
Journal volume & issue
no. 2-3

Abstract

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The notion of intersectionality has become important in order to understand the condition of the subject in a society that among other factors are characterized by changing gender relations. The notion relates itself to a society in which categories such as gender, class, ethnicity, age, sexual preferences, etc. interact with each other in novel and a more fluid and fluctuant way than earlier. Even though, internationally, feminist research has begun to focus on the intersection between different categories, it seems that the attention directed towards class is still minimized; class somehow seems to continue to live in obscurity, which is why a reflection of a distant past comes to mind as the class category by various means has a history of marginalisation within the feminist agenda. The article thus emphasizes the need to develop new feminist ways of thinking and writing about class.