Intersectionality and its discontents: Intersectionality as traveling theory

European Journal of Women's Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 403-418

  Salem, Sara ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Feminism; gender; intersectionality; Marxism; materialism; transnationalism; traveling theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85022225889     PISSN: 13505068     EISSN: 14617420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350506816643999     Document Type: Article

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