Practicing Intersectionality in Spain

Intersectionality has become a very popular term in academic, policy and activist circles. We understand intersectionality as a theoretical project concerned with elucidating the re-lationships between different principles of inequality and oppression. We identify three conceptual moves that distinguish intersectionality from other theoretical frameworks about inequality and power: a movement from additive to interactive models, a movement from categorical to process-based frameworks, and a movement from autonomous individu-als to embedded social relations as foundations for social theory. We deploy examples re-lated to the paid domestic work in Spain to demonstrate the usefulness of these conceptual moves.