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Heralded as the “most important contribution that women’s studies has made so far” (McCall, 2005: 1771), intersectionality, a developing concept that has triggered numerous academic interventions and theorizing from different disciplines and perspectives, is a theory of extending open-endedness. It is of cardinal importance to carefully examine the originality and the theoretical positioning of the concept if we are to fully grasp the departing points which define it as subversive to the traditional feminist thought. This paper conceptualizes intersectionality as a traveling concept, and intends to examine how it is able to bring together different branches of feminisms from multiple perspectives and the possibility of achieving its ethical-political goals to problematize the theoretical hegemony of gender while still being able to provide a united feminist theoretical front.