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This book includes essays that directly uncover how power asymmetries and related forms of marginalization and oppression function in the political and policy arenas with a special emphasis on the intersection of several systems of subordination.
This edited volume tackles two main questions: first, what are the main claims, struggles, and possibilities of contemporary intersectional feminisms; and second, how shall we, as scholars, address intersectional (feminist) activisms in our research - theoretically, methodologically, and empirically. These issues are debated from several intersectional (feminist) perspectives, locations, and positionalities. The globally oriented and empirically grounded scope of this volume is undeniable. This book goes beyond the Western hegemony in intersectionality-related research and knowledge production, bringing in practices, experiences, and critical perspectives of intersectional (feminist) scholars and activists who are not necessarily located in the most privileged social, political, and financial milieus.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars from across the social sciences and humanities with an interest in intersectionality, gender, feminism, racism, LGBT+ and queer studies, activism and social movement studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of
Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy.
List of contents
Introduction - Bringing Activism Back In
1. Studying Latina Mobilization Intersectionally, Studying Latinas Mobilizing Intersectionality
2. Intersectional Feminist Activism and Practices of Transformation: Perspectives from Indian Feminisms
3. At the Intersections of Gender Inequality and State Fragility in Africa
4. De-Whitening Romani Women's Intersectional Experience
5. Affirming Fissures: Conceptualizing Intersectional 'Ethnic' Feminism in Aotearoa New Zealand
6. Intersectional Politics of the International Women's Strike
7. Confronting Anti-Muslim Racism and Islamism: An Intersectional Perspective on Muslim Women's Activism in Germany
8. Solidarity Through Difference? How Italian and Spanish LGBTQIA* Organizations Frame Solidarity Through an Intersectional Lens
9. Strategies of Resistance in the Everyday: The Political Approaches of Black Women Living in a Public Housing Development in Chicago
10. Feminists, Nationalist, Combatants, Activists. A Conversation with Vjosa Musliu on the Multi-Faceted Role of Women in Kosovo
About the author
Serena D'Agostino is Senior Researcher in Political Science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium. Her work has been published in the
European Journal of Politics and Gender,
International Feminist Journal of Politics,
Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies,
Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, and
Politics, Groups, and Identities, among others.
Nadia E. Brown is Professor of Government and Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. She is co-author of
Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites (2021).
