Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
Crenshaw's 1991 foundational essay on intersectionality — Black women at the intersection of race and gender
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color (Mid) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
The historical time of intersectional analysis.
Space
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
The intersectional social-political space.
Matter
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
The embodied Black-female intersectional subject.
Observer
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
The intersectional subject; Crenshaw as critical race theorist.
Energy
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
Energies of intersectional analytical framework.
Information
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
Foundational intersectional-feminist legal framework.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Crenshaw's intersectionality concept widely adopted across feminist, race, and queer theory traditions.