Minority Women, Rights and Intersectionality - Agency, Power, and Participation

This collection focuses on minority women through the perspectives of minority rights and intersectionality to investigate such key concepts as discrimination, inequality, agency, participation, resistance, and solidarity while also unpacking dynamics of power.

List of contents

Foreword (Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark). Introduction: Minority Women: Bringing Intersectionality to Minority Rights Studies (Alexandra Cosima Budabin, Jody Metcalfe, and Shilpi Pandey) Part I: Moving Beyond Gender and Minority Neutrality in International Policy Implementation 1. The Rights of National Minority Women in the Council of Europe: The Case for Intersectionality (Meyeti Payet) 2. Making Claims at the United Nations: How Intersectional Frames Matter for Minority Women (Alexandra Cosima Budabin) 3. Making the Women Peace and Security Agenda More Inclusive: An Intersectional Perspective on Minority Women (Elisa Piras) 4. Women of African Descent, Intersectionality and Human Rights (Satang Nabaneh) 5. Policymaking from the Margins: Reflections on the First Ten-Year Implementation of AU Agenda 2063 (Mandipa Bongiwe Ndlovu) Part II: Examining Barriers in Digital, Legal, And Socio-Economic Spheres 6. Unveiling Colonial Legacies: Negotiating Intersectional Identity(ies) and Rights of Muslim Women - A Comparative Analysis of France and India (Shilpi Pandey) 7. Exclusion(s) of Roma Women from Local Political Representation in Romania (Oana Buta) 8. Interrogating Intersectionality in Institutional Feminism(S) and Politics in Spain: The Interplay between LGBTQIA+ and Minority Rights (Paula Medina García) 9. What Hinders (An Effective) Socioeconomic Participation of Minority Women? An Intersectional Analysis on South Tyrol and Catalonia (Alexandra Tomaselli) 10. Intersectionality, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Fairness: An Oxymoron or a Reality? (Roberta Medda-Windischer and Katharina Crepaz) Part III: Making Visible: Activism and Resistance of Minority Women 11. Intersections of Status: Future-Making Activism of Afro-Polish Women and African Migrants in Poland (Patrycja Koziel) 12. Digital Self-Representation of Minority Wom*n: An Intersectional Analysis of Sámi Content Creators (Kyriaki Topidi and Jody Metcalfe) Epilogue: Intersectional Justice and Minority Women (Joshua Castellino and Farida A. Hashim). Index

About the author

Alexandra Cosima Budabin, Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research, Italy.
Jody Metcalfe, European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany.
Shilpi Pandey, Department of Public Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

Product details

• Authors: Alexandra Cosima Metcalfe Budabin
• Assisted by: Alexandra Cosima Budabin (Editor), Jody Metcalfe (Editor), Shilpi Pandey (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 19.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032834733
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3283473-3
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Routledge Advances in Minority Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LAW / Civil Rights, LAW / Discrimination, LAW / Gender & the Law, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Gender & the law, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies: women, Social Law, Gender studies: women and girls, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Law and society, gender issues, Social law and Medical law