1st Edition
Intersectional (Feminist) Activisms Global Practices and Experiences
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.
The 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. The 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 gender, feminism, racism, LGBT+ and queer studies, and social movement studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy.
Introduction - Bringing Activism Back In
Serena D’Agostino and Nadia E. Brown
1. Studying Latina Mobilization Intersectionally, Studying Latinas Mobilizing Intersectionality
Celeste Montoya
2. Intersectional Feminist Activism and Practices of Transformation: Perspectives from Indian Feminisms
Rukmini Sen
3. At the Intersections of Gender Inequality and State Fragility in Africa
Adryan Wallace
4. De-Whitening Romani Women’s Intersectional Experience
Sebijan Fejzula
5. Affirming Fissures: Conceptualizing Intersectional ‘Ethnic’ Feminism in Aotearoa New Zealand
Rachel Simon-Kumar
6. Intersectional Politics of the International Women’s Strike
Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Shariana Ferrer-Núñez and Carolina Hernandez
7. Confronting Anti-Muslim Racism and Islamism: An Intersectional Perspective on Muslim
Women’s Activism in Germany
Fatima El Sayed
8. Solidarity Through Difference? How Italian and Spanish LGBTQIA* Organizations Frame Solidarity Through an Intersectional Lens
Aurora Perego
9. Strategies of Resistance in the Everyday: The Political Approaches of Black Women Living in a Public Housing Development in Chicago
Alex J. Moffett-Bateau
10. Feminists, Nationalist, Combatants, Activists. A Conversation with Vjosa Musliu on the Multi-Faceted Role of Women in Kosovo
Vjosa Musliu and Enduena Klajiqi
Biography
Serena D’Agostino is Senior Researcher in Political Science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her work has been published in 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. She is co-author of Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites (2021).
