Registration ends 07.4.2026 at 23:59 h

Nobody experiences the world in just one dimension. This seminar looks critically at how gender, sexuality, racism and class form multiple, intersecting dimensions that shape individual experience, social structures and power relations. This ‘intersectionality’ or ‘multidimensionality’ informs the ways in which some people and some groups experience specific (often particularly egregious) forms of oppression, marginalisation or exploitation. However, the seminar also looks at how ‘intersectional’ or ‘multidimensional’ approaches have historically informed the ways in which such oppression, marginalisation or exploitation have been resisted.

Throughout this course, we will look at how economic questions – i.e. questions of class and capitalism, waged and unwaged labour – shape gender, sexuality, racism and the ways in which these are entangled with one another.

Students will engage with key works by Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Roderick A. Ferguson, Patricia Hill Collins, Stuart Hall, the Combahee River Collective, Sara Ahmed, and Angela Davis.

• Understand how interdisciplinary scholarship has defined ‘intersectionality’ and ‘multidimensionality’
• Engage with key intersectional feminist, queer and anti-racist scholarship addressing questions of economics, class, capitalism and labour
• Explore how feminist, queer and anti-racist movements have shaped critical scholarship around gender, sexuality, racism and class

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