Intersectionality

Presentation at the Women and Public Policy Forum at the Harvard Kennedy School

Presentation within the symposium "Existing at the Nexus of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation".

Using the theoretical frameworks of evolutionary psychology and social dominance theory (SDT), this chapter offers an alternative understanding of the intersectional entanglement of racism and sexism. This chapter introduces the theory of gendered prejudice, a derivative of SDT, and posits that a satisfactory account of racism, or what social dominance theorists generalize as “arbitrary-set” oppression, is a deeply gendered phenomenon.