The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities: (Routledge Companions to Gender)

The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities is a dynamic reference source to the key contemporary analytic in feminist thought: intersectionality. Comprising over 50 chapters by a diverse, international, and interdisciplinary team of contributors, the Companion is divided into nine parts: Retracing intersectional genealogies Intersectional methods and (inter)disciplinarity Intersectionality’s travels Intersectional borderwork Trans* intersectionalities Disability and intersectional embodiment Intersectional science and data studies Popular culture at the intersections Rethinking intersectional justice This accessibly written collection is essential reading for students, teachers, and researchers working in women’s and gender studies, sexuality studies, African American studies, sociology, politics, and other related subjects from across the humanities and social sciences.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Accompanying Intersectionality Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto Part 1: Retracing Intersectional Genealogies 1. An Ethics of Uncare: Coalition Politics After the Turn of the Century Rebecca Wanzo 2. The Memphis School Ivy Ken and Allison Suppan Helmuth 3. Not Your Average Counter-Origin Story: Intersectionality, Ida B. Wells, and Southern Horrors Regis Fox 4. Ungendering Intersectionality and Reproductive Justice, Returning to Hortense Spillers’s "Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe" Alys Eve Weinbaum 5. Tool Optimism: A History of the 1979 Second Sex Conference and the Afterlives of Audre Lorde Rachel Corbman 6. Black Feminism and the Violence of the Word: Anoriginary Blackness James Bliss 7. Parable of the Advocate: Speculative Humanisms in Patricia J. Williams The Alchemy of Race and Rights Justin Mann 8. Reading at the Nexus of Neglect and Fetishization: The "Occult" of Intersectionality Vivian May Part 2: Intersectional Methods and (Inter)Disciplinarity 9. Beyond Intersectional Identities: 10 Intersectional Structural Competencies for Critical Health Equity Research Lisa Bowleg 10. Waves and Riptides: Mapping Intersectionality’s Currents in Feminist Psychology Patrick Grzanka and Elizabeth R. Cole 11. Narratives in Context: Locating Racism and Sexism in Black Women’s Health Experiences Kayonne Christy, Dominique Adams-Santos, and Celeste Watkins-Hayes 12. System-Building, Political Orders, and Indigenous Feminist Diplomacies Mark Rifkin 13. Intersectionality and Ethnography: Sexual Violence and Racial Subordination in the Courts Sameena Mulla 14. Journeys of Intersectionality: Contingency and Collision Rita Kaur Dhamoon 15. Who’s Afraid of Identity? Intersectionality and the Struggle for, Against, and Beyond Identity Ashley Bohrer 16. Networks of Relationalities through the Lens of Material Culture Minoo Moallem Part 3: Intersectionality’s Travels 17. Revisiting a Politics of Location with and without Intersectionality Mary E. John 18. The Circulation of Intersectionality in China Lin Sun 19. Loving Critique: On intersectionality and ambiguity in North Africa and West Asia Maie Panaga and Sara Salem 20. Exploring connections between the street and the classroom in moving through feminist impasses Meena Gopal and Sangita Thosar 21. From travel to arrival: mapping intersectionality’s landings in the Global South Srila Roy Part 4: Intersectional Borderwork 22. Reimaging Intersectionality Via the Rural-Urban Borderlands Roxanna Villalobos 23. Origins Anna Carastathis 24. Intersectionality and Transnational Power in the U.S. Asylum Process Sylvanna Falcon 25. The Grid and the Map: Intersectionality in Migration Sherally Munshi 26. Beyond Intersectionality: The Geopolitics of Race and Caste Inderpal Grewal and Hazel Carby Part 5: Trans* Intersectionalities 27. Before Intersectionality Dorothy Kim 28. Trans of Color Liberation: An Unauthorized History of the Future Jules Gill-Peterson 29. Insurgent Trans Study: Radical Trans Feminism Meets Intersectionality Marquis Bey Part 6: Disability and Intersectional Embodiment 30. DisCrit Recovery: Correcting Disability Erasure for Black Girls in the School-Prison Nexus Subini A. Annamma, Beth A. Ferri, and Sylvia N. Nyegenye 31. Disability Art on Lockdown: Access and Intersectionality in a Pandemic Robert McRuer 32. Why Is "I Can’t Breathe" Disbelieved?: George Floyd, Barbara Dawson, and the Intersecting Roots of Anti-Black Violence Anna Mollow 33. Intersecting Pandemics: Violence, a Virus, and Américo Paredes Julie Minich Part 7: Intersectional Science and Data Studies 34. (Re-)Imagining Black Feminist Physics and Astronomy Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 35. Intersectional Feminist Data Visualization: Precepts and Practices Roopika Risam 36. Intersectionality and Its Limits: Quantitative Public Health and the Epidemiology of Sexually Transmitted Infections Mairead Sullivan 37. Intersectionality as live theory and practice in the biomedical sciences H. Shattuck-Heidorn, M. Boulicault, T. Rushovich, and S. S. Richardson Part 8: Popular Culture at the Intersections 38. Cultural Appropriation and the Paradox of Method: Nikki S. Lee Performing Intersectionality Leslie Bow 39. Comedy, M Butterfly, and the Potentials of Dissonance Denise Cruz 40. Intersectional Feminist Pleasure and the Bind of Heteronormativity in Killing Eve Lynn Fujiwara 41. "We come West and Ruth went East": Musings on Sherley Anne Williams’s "Meditations on History" Ann duCille 42. White Feminism and other ghost stories Suzanna Danuta Walters 43. "Stop Treating BLM like Coachella": The Branding of Intersectionality Sarah Banet-Weiser and Zoe Glatt 44. Megan Thee Stallion Sings the Blues: Black Queer Theory and Intersectionality Nikki Lane Part 9: Rethinking Intersectional Justice 45. Intersectionality, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Semitism, and the Question of Palestine Jasbir Puar 46. Commercial Affinity: "Intersectionality" and the limits of "racial capitalism" Michael Ralph 47. Turning on Intersectionality Lynn Mie Itagaki 48. Owning Your Masters (Taylor’s Version): Postfeminist Tactical Copyright and the Erasure of Black Intellectual Labor Anjali Vats 49. Interrogating Caste, Gender and Citizenship in Post-Partition Bengal Anandita Pan 50. Money Good?: The Problem and Promise of Black Women’s Prosperity Chelsea Frazier 51. #MeToo, Intersectionality, Law Brenda Cossman 52. Rethinking concepts of care and labor as an intersectional politics of redistribution Valerie Taing 53. In the Crosshairs: Black Women, Self-Defense, and the Politics of Armed Citizenship Caroline Light and Claire Boine. Index

About the Author :
Jennifer C. Nash is Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University, USA. She is the author of three books: The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography, Black Feminism Reimagined, and Birthing Black Mothers. Samantha Pinto is Professor of English and core faculty of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is the author of Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights and Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic.