Abstract

Intersectionality is a critical approach to power which both theorizes and researches the interweaving of categories of social inequality—categories such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality—as these manifest in various levels of societal discourses, institutions, and in subject positioning. As societal discourses do not emerge detached from the all-encompassing media world, examinations of media as coproducers of power relations can be particularly illuminating of the concept of intersectionality. Conversely, intersectionality is a methodological and methodical challenge for media research in multiple respects.