1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Intersectionality Studies
Intersectionality is one of the most popular theoretical paradigms in gender studies and feminist theory today. Initially developed to explore how gender and race interact in the experiences of US women of colour, it has since been taken up in different disciplines and national contexts, where it is used to investigate a wide range of intersecting social identities and experiences of exclusion and subordination. This volume explores intersectionality studies as a burgeoning international field with a growing body of research, which is increasingly drawn upon in policy, political interventions, and social activism. Bringing together contributors from different disciplines and locations, The Routledge International Handbook of Intersectionality Studies maps the history and travels of intersectionality between continents and countries and takes up debates surrounding the privileged role of race in intersectional analysis, the ways in which intersectional analysis should or should not be carried out, and the political implications of thinking intersectional analysis and thought. Opening up new avenues of enquiry for a future generation of scholars and practitioners, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, gender studies, politics, and cultural studies with interests in feminist thought, social identity, social exclusion, and social inequality.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
SECTION I
Intersectionality and Its Travels
1 Intersectionality as Traveling Theory—Possibilities for Dialogues
Kathy 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 Streets
Mara 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 Holzleithner
20 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 Bello
22 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 Guerrero
SECTION VI
Epilogue
24 Who Owns Intersectionality? Some Reflections on Feminist Debates on How Theories Travel
Kathy Davis
Index
Biography
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.
