ABSTRACT
The institutionalization of intersectionality in the academy led to a displacement of praxis as the central force driving its articulation. For contemporary feminist studies scholars and teachers, intersectionality is one of the primary theoretical lenses through which women's studies is envisioned and taught. Many programs now situate their mission statements and pedagogical practice through an intersectional lens. Many of the scholars who have adopted intersectionality as a central analytic approach generated studies incorporating data from women of different racial-ethnic and class backgrounds as a way to advance their intersectional projects. The call for intersectional analyses were first heard from feminists of color who critiqued approaches that constructed women's concerns without attention to the ways race, class, and sexuality inform the experiences of women. Feminist work on intersectionality is often linked to standpoint epistemological frameworks with overlapping concerns the construction of experience, politics, and epistemology.
