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- - - - these arguments challenged but also weakened feminist projects for some westerners.
        
        Both men and women seldom spoke of gender but raised the issue of race and racism,
        
        gender by itself provided only partial explanatory power for the choices women made following their time in Spain and argentina.
        
        " Intersectionality proved to be flexible enough to enable the analysis of class, ethnicity and gender, defined according to locally constructed norms and definitions. "
        
        "that of failing to understand how gender is also a classed, racialized and ethnicized concept."
        
        many studies that fell under intersectional approach, but were not claimed as such
        
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- - - - Intersectionality emerged during the 1980s
        
        the uptake has been rather slow for intersectionality
        
        migrants destabilize fixed borders and boundaries
        
        migration is a key developmental issue
        
        migrants create new possibilities for those left behind and for those they will encounter
        
        it is not surprising that migrant women are fast becoming the new ‘quintessential intersectional subjects’
- - - - "Then there was the blurring of the very separate causes of Afghan women’s suffering: malnutrition, poverty, class politics, and ill health, and the more recent exclusion under the Taliban from employment, schooling, and the joys of wearing nail polish."
        
        The speech enlisted women to justify American military inter-vention in Af ghan i stan and to make a case for the War on Terror of which it was a part.
        
        "Saba Mahmood points particularly to the overlap today between the liberal dis-courses of feminism and secular democracy; the missionary lit-erature from earlier eras, like the Algerian school skit, show in-stead that the earlier language was not secular."
        
        this neces-sitates a discussion of the veil, or the burqa, because it is so cen-tral to contemporary concerns about Muslim women.
        
        , the demographics and meaning of wearing (and not wearing) the burqa in public have changed, varying especially between the cities and countryside.17
- - - - What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to par tic u lar communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?
        
        We need to be aware of differences, respectful of other paths toward social change that might give women better lives, and recognize that such options are set by different historical experi-ences.
        
        We now understand them to be suffering from structural vio-lence. We have become politicized about race and class, but not culture.
        
        A more productive alternative might be to ask ourselves how we could contribute to making the world a more just place— a world not or ga nized around strategic military and economic demands; a place where certain kinds of forces and values that we consider important could have a wide appeal; a place where there is the peace necessary for discussion, debate, and institu-tional transformation, such as has always existed, to occur and continue within communities. :check: