Main description:

Intersectionality is one of the most popular theoretical paradigms in gender studies and feminist theory today. Initially developed to explore how gender and race interact in the experiences of US women of colour, it has since been taken up in different disciplines and national contexts, where it is used to investigate a wide range of intersecting social identities and experiences of exclusion and subordination. This volume explores intersectionality studies as a burgeoning international field with a growing body of research, which is increasingly drawn upon in policy, political interventions, and social activism. Bringing together contributors from different disciplines and locations, The Routledge International Handbook of Intersectionality Studies maps the history and travels of intersectionality between continents and countries and takes up debates surrounding the privileged role of race in intersectional analysis, the ways in which intersectional analysis should or should not be carried out, and the political implications of thinking intersectional analysis and thought. Opening up new avenues of inquiry for a future generation of scholars and practitioners, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, gender studies, politics and cultural studies with interests in feminist thought, social identity, social exclusion and social inequality

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

SECTION 1

Intersectionality and its travels

1 Intersectionality as Traveling Theory - Possibilities for Dialogues

Kathy Davis and Helma Lutz

2 European Trajectories of Intersectionality

Ann Phoenix

3 Intersectionality: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe

Kornelia Slavova and Rumiana Stoilova

4 Intersectionality from the Margins: Historical Subjects/Subjectivation in the Global South

Lyn Ossome

5 The Travels of Intersectionality in Latin America: Bringing the Desks out into the Streets

Mara Viveros Vigoya

SECTION 2

Developments in intersectionality studies

6. Intersectionality and its Critics: Postcolonial-Queer-Feminist Conundrums

Nikita Dhawan and Maria Do Mar Castro Varela

7. The Analytical and the Political: Situated Intersectionality and Transversal Solidarity

Nira Yuval Davis

8. Intersectionality at the Macro Level: Social Theory as Practice

Maria Azocar and Myra Marx Ferree

9. Intersectionality, Global Patriarchy, and the Power of Feminist Performance

Sylvanna M. Falcon

SECTION 3

Debates and critiques

10 Muted Tongues, Disappearing Acts, and Disremembered Subjects: Intersectionality and Black Feminist Intellectual History

Vivian M. May

11 The Quest for the Right Metaphor

Amund Rake Hoffart

12 Intersectionality and Diversity - Same or Different?

Christa Binswanger

13 Entangled Solidarities?! Intersectionality and Abolition

Vanessa E. Thompson

14 "Post-war" Reflections on Intersectionality: Arrivals, Methodologies and Structural Entanglements

Nina Lykke

SECTION 4

Analyzing intersectionality: How to use it

15 Intersectional Iconography: Promise, Peril, Possibility

Jennifer C. Nash

16 Intersectionality and Health Inequality: Methodological Reflections

Anna Bredstroem

17 Intersectionality as Critical Method: Asking the Other Question

Kathy Davis and Helma Lutz

18 Quantitative Intersectional Research - Approaches, Practices, and Needs

Niels Spierings

SECTION 5

Intersectionality, social justice, and activism

19 Law and social justice: intersectional dimensions

Elisabeth Holzleithner

20 On Intersectionality in Practice: Two US Socialist Feminist Organisations

Linda Gordon

21 What can an intersectional perspective tell us about the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatters Movements?

Barbara Giovanna Bello

22 Social Movements and Intersectional Solidarities

Ethel Tungohan and Fernando Tormos-Aponte

23 Latina Activism in the United States: Intersectional Positions and Praxis. A historical overview

Celeste Montoya and Raquel Hernandez Guerrero

SECTION 6

Epilogue

24 Who Owns Intersectionality? Some Reflections on Feminist Debates on How Theories Travel

Kathy Davis

Index