Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality: (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences)

Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality re-examines political, conceptual and methodological concerns of 'intersectionality', bringing these into conversation with sexuality studies. While a concern with sexuality is apparent within scholarly work on 'intersectionality' as a spoke on the 'intersectional wheel' these intersections are often minimally gestured towards rather than empirically substantiated. In the context of these debates, this collection asks what futures exist for intersectionality? Across different international contexts, disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives, the authors in this collection speak to the current absences and even problems of intersectional analyses in re-considering this as a useful paradigm in sexualities studies, avoiding simple insertion and repetition. As a whole, the collection seeks to weave a more complex, shifting and contested map of sexual identifications, politics and inequalities as these (dis)connect across time and place, re-constituted in relation to class, disability, ethnicity, gender and age. Empirical, methodological and theoretical concerns are brought together, serving to demonstrate contemporary intersections as imagined by researchers in desiring and questioning intersectional frames.

Table of Contents:
PART I: COMPLEXITIES AND COMPLICATIONS - INTERSECTIONAL (RE)RUNS Me, Myself, and I; K.Weston Complexities and Complications: Intersections of Class and Sexuality; Y.Taylor On the Depoliticisation of Intersectionality Talk: Conceptualising Multiple Oppressions in Critical Sexuality Studies; U.Erel, J.Haritaworn, E.Gutierrez Rodriguez & C.Klesse 'Try Again: Fail Again: Fail Better' Queer Interdependencies as Corrective Methodologies; E.Haschemi Yekani, B.Michaelis& G.Dietze PART II: LIVED EXPERIENCES, INTERSECTING LIVES Intersectionality and Sexuality: The Case of Sexuality and Transgender Equalities Work in UK Local Government; D.Richardson& S.Monro Thinking Intersectionality: Sexualities and the Politics of Multiple Identities; J.Dean Sexing Gender; Gendering Sex: Towards an Intersectional Analysis of Transgender; S.Hines Desistence from Sex Work: Feminist Cultural Criminology and Intersectionality: The Complexities of Moving In and Out of Sex Work; M.O'Neil& R.Campbell PART III: OPERATIONALISING INTERSECTIONALITY Sexualities Sociologies and the Intersectional Potential of Two Qualitative Methodologies; K.Broad The Language of Intersectionality: Researching 'Lesbian' Identity in Urban Russia; F.Stella Multiplex Methodologies: Researching Young People's Wellbeing at the Intersections of Class, Sexuality, Gender and Age; L.McDermott Bent: Non-Normative Embodiment as Lived Intersectionality; K.Inckle

About the Author :
YVETTE TAYLOR is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Newcastle University, UK. Previous books include Working-class Lesbian Life: Classed Outsiders (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) Lesbian and Gay Parenting: Securing Social and Educational Capitals (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and an edited collection Classed Intersections: Spaces, Selves, Knowledges. She holds the Lillian Robinson Fellowship at Concordia University, Canada. SALLY HINES is Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK. Her previous publications include TransForming Gender: Transgender Practices of Identity, Intimacy and Care, and forthcoming publications include Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship: Towards a Politics of Difference (Palgrave Macmillan). MARK CASEY is Lecturer in Sociology, Newcastle University, UK. He is currently conducting a British Academy funded study with Yvette Taylor titled 'Bright Lights, Big City? Transformations and Transitions in Lesbian and Gay Socio-Spatial sites'.

Review :
'Since the 1980s theories of intersectionality have provided a vital means of exploring the overlapping, interweaving forms of power and domination, especially around race, gender and class, and the ways they impact on the reality of individual lives. In this important new book the contributors turn a supportive but critical eye on the debates so far, but also highlight the absences. Sexuality, especially, so important in the early days of debates about intersectionality, has often been neglected. This book more than makes up for a gap. It opens up the debate in new and insightful ways, and underlines the continuing relevance of the idea of intersectionality.' - Jeffrey Weeks, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London South Bank University, UK 'A politically provocative and theoretically challenging collection of essays that should stimulate debate about the much used concept of "intersectionality" across the critical social sciences.' - Sasha Roseneil, Professor of Sociology and Social Theory, Birkbeck University of London, UK