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This volume maps the history and travels of intersectionality as a theoretical paradigm in gender studies and feminist thought, taking up debates relating to the privilege of race in intersectional analysis, the ways in which intersectional analysis should be conducted and the political implications of intersectional thought.
List of contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
SECTION I
Intersectionality and Its Travels
1 Intersectionality as Traveling Theory-
Possibilities for DialoguesKathy 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 StreetsMara Viveros Vigoya SECTION II
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 J. Azocar and Myra Marx Ferree
9. Intersectionality, Global Patriarchy, and the Power of Feminist Performance
Sylvanna M. Falcón
SECTION III
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 IV
Analyzing Intersectionality: How to Use It
15 Intersectional Iconography: Promise, Peril, Possibility
Jennifer C. Nash
16 Intersectionality and Health Inequality: Methodological Reflections
Anna Bredström 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 V
Intersectionality, Social Justice, and Activism
19 Law and Social Justice: Intersectional Dimensions
Elisabeth Holzleithner20 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 Bello22 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 GuerreroSECTION VI
Epilogue
24 Who Owns Intersectionality? Some Reflections on Feminist Debates on How Theories Travel
Kathy Davis
Index
About the author
Kathy Davis is Senior Research Fellow in the Sociology Department at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the author of
Power Under the Microscope,
Reshaping the Female Body,
Dubious
Equalities and Embodied Differences,
The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders, and
Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World. She is the editor of
Embodied Practices: Feminist Perspectives on the Body and the co-editor of
Contested Belonging: Spaces, Practices, Biographies,
Transatlantic Conversations: Feminism as Travelling Theory,
The Sage Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies,
The Gender of Power,
and
Embodied Practices: Feminist Perspectives on the Body.
Helma Lutz is Professor Emeritus of Women's and Gender Studies and acting director of the Cornelia Goethe Centre for Women's and Gender Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She is the co-author of
Gender and Migration: Transnational and Intersectional Prospects; the author of
The New Maids: Transnational Women and the Care Economy; the editor of
Migration and Domestic Work: A European Perspective on a Global Theme; and co-editor of
Framing Intersectionality: Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept in Gender Studies,
The New Migration in Europe: Social Constructions and Social Realities, and
Crossfires: Nationalism, Racism and Gender in Europe.
Summary
This volume maps the history and travels of intersectionality as a theoretical paradigm in gender studies and feminist thought, taking up debates relating to the privilege of race in intersectional analysis, the ways in which intersectional analysis should be conducted and the political implications of intersectional thought.
