Beyond an “Excel-Sheet” Feminism Conceptual and Political Challenges of Intersectionality Today

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Published: Jun 30, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14232/tntef.2020.1.39-66

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Gergely Csányi
University of Pécs
Eszter Kováts
ELTE University
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3417-3412

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“Excel-perspective” – this is what we call the contemporary, individualized and quantified form of intersectionality. Like an Excel sheet, it merely counts the experiences of individual oppression. In this paper, we discuss the history of intersectionality from the identity politics struggles of the 1960s to today’s intersectional political practices. Then we set out our critique of contemporary, individualist, “Excel-perspective” intersectionality, and present a possible complex approach to intersectionality.

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Csányi, Gergely, and Eszter Kováts. 2020. “Beyond an ‘Excel-Sheet’ Feminism: Conceptual and Political Challenges of Intersectionality Today”. Interdisciplinary EJournal of Gender Studies 10 (1):39-66. https://doi.org/10.14232/tntef.2020.1.39-66.
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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2020): Feminist Criticism and Intersectionality
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Author Biographies

Gergely Csányi, University of Pécs

Gergely Csányi is a PhD student of the University of Pécs at the Demography and Sociology Doctoral School, and at the Psychology Doctoral School. Csányi is member of the Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet” (‘Situation’). His research field is the social-economic embeddedness and historical change of psychic structures, intimacy, body conceptions and gender.

Eszter Kováts, ELTE University

Eszter Kováts is a PhD student in Political Science at ELTE University, Budapest. She is currently a guest researcher at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She was working in the Hungarian Office of the German political foundation Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) from 2009 till end of 2019. From 2012 till 2019 she was responsible for the Foundation’s gender program for East-Central Europe. Her latest publication: “Post-Socialist Conditions and the Orbán Government’s Gender Politics between 2010 and 2019 in Hungary” in: Right-Wing Populism and Gender. European Perspectives and Beyond (eds. Gabriele Dietze and Julia Roth. Columbia University Press. 2020).