Nira Yuval-Davis's article "Intersectionality and Feminist Politics" explores the interrelationships of gender, class, race, and ethnicity, and other social divisions. It examines the debate on these issues in Britain in the 1980s and around the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism. The article discusses the relative usefulness of additive or mutually constitutive models of intersectional social divisions, the different analytical levels at which social divisions need to be studied, their ontological bases, and their relationships to each other. The final section critically assesses a specific intersectional methodological approach for aid and human rights work in the South. Yuval-Davis argues that social divisions are not reducible to each other and have different ontological bases, emphasizing the importance of recognizing the dynamic and shifting nature of these divisions. She also highlights the need to differentiate between different kinds of differences and to avoid conflating positionings, identities, and values. The article concludes by discussing the emerging methodology of intersectional analysis in human rights discourse and the challenges it faces, particularly in UN-related bodies.Nira Yuval-Davis's article "Intersectionality and Feminist Politics" explores the interrelationships of gender, class, race, and ethnicity, and other social divisions. It examines the debate on these issues in Britain in the 1980s and around the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism. The article discusses the relative usefulness of additive or mutually constitutive models of intersectional social divisions, the different analytical levels at which social divisions need to be studied, their ontological bases, and their relationships to each other. The final section critically assesses a specific intersectional methodological approach for aid and human rights work in the South. Yuval-Davis argues that social divisions are not reducible to each other and have different ontological bases, emphasizing the importance of recognizing the dynamic and shifting nature of these divisions. She also highlights the need to differentiate between different kinds of differences and to avoid conflating positionings, identities, and values. The article concludes by discussing the emerging methodology of intersectional analysis in human rights discourse and the challenges it faces, particularly in UN-related bodies.