1st Edition

Intersectional (Feminist) Activisms Global Practices and Experiences

Edited By Serena D’Agostino, Nadia E. Brown Copyright 2025
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

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;... Read more

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 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).