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	Intersectionality Analysis	Grounded Theory
Field	Gender Studies	Qualitative Research
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1989	1967
Originator	Kimberlé Crenshaw	Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss
Type	Critical qualitative analytic framework	Method
Seminal source	Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299.	Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Aldine.
Aliases	Intersectional Analysis, Intersectionality Framework, Intersectional Qualitative Analysis	GT, Grounded Theory Approach
Related	4	3
Summary	Intersectionality analysis is a critical qualitative framework that examines how multiple social categories — such as race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability — intersect and operate together to shape lived experience, advantage, and disadvantage. Coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 and 1991, it rejects single-axis analysis that treats categories one at a time, insisting instead that overlapping systems of power produce qualitatively distinct positions that cannot be understood by adding the categories separately.	Grounded Theory (GT) is a systematic qualitative research methodology in which theory emerges directly from data through iterative analysis, rather than being imposed before data collection. Developed by Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss in 1967, GT prioritizes generating explanatory frameworks grounded in evidence.