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Discuss the significance and limitations of ‘intersectionality’ in social research.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Research Methods and Analysis

Kimberlé Crenshaw coined intersectionality in "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex" (1989), after American courts denied Black women a discrimination claim combining race and sex because the employer hired Black men and white women. A single-axis framework, she argued in "Mapping the Margins" (1991), erases those standing where two structures meet. Patricia Hill Collins…

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