交こう差さ性せい

noun

intersectionality

Academic term from sociology and critical theory referring to the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

• 交こう差さ性せいの概がい念ねんは、複ふく数すうの差さ別べつが重かさなり合あうことを説せつ明めいする。

  The concept of intersectionality explains how multiple forms of discrimination overlap.

• 彼かの女じょの研けん究きゅうは、ジェンダーと人じん種しゅの交こう差さ性せいに焦しょう点てんを当あてている。

  Her research focuses on the intersectionality of gender and race.