Feminist Intersectionality In Disability Summary

In her essay “Disability as a New Frontier for Feminist Intersectionality Research,” Nancy Hirschmann argues that feminism’s approaches (for the purpose of what we might assume to be understanding forms of systematic oppression (Hankivsky, 2011)) have been limited, mainly due to the conceptualizations of intersections and actual application of intersectionality in feminist work (Hirschmann, 2012). Disability studies, she asserts, can enrich feminist analyses because understanding the intersectionality between disability, gender and sexuality demands the development of more complicated conceptions of intersectionality. Intersectionality in disability studies recognizes both the differences and the connections within and between groups, therefore