This collection addresses the present and the future of the concept of intersectionality within socio-legal studies. Intersectionality provides a metaphorical schema for understanding the interaction of different forms of disadvantage, including race, sexuality, and gender. But it also goes further to provide a particular model of how these aspects of social identity and location converge – whether at the level of subjectivity, everyday life, in culture or in the institutional practices of state and other bodies. Including contributions from a range of international scholars, this book interrogates what has become a key organizing concept across a range of disciplines, most particularly law, political theory, and cultural studies.
Table of Contents:
Part 1: Mapping Intersectionalities; 1. Intersectionality and the Feminist Project in Law, Joanne Conaghan; 2. The Complexity of Intersectionality, Leslie McCall; Part 2: Confronting Law; 3. Intersectionality Analysis in the Sentencing of Aboriginal Women in Canada: What Difference Does it Make?, Toni Williams; 4. Sexual Violence, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality in International Criminal Law, Doris Buss; 5. Intersectionality in Theory and Practice, Suzanne B. Goldberg; 6. Identifying Disadvantage: Beyond Intersectionality, Rosemary Hunter and Tracey De Simone; 7. Intersectionality: Traumatic Impressions, Emily Grabham; Part 3: Power Relations and the State; 8. Transitional Intersections: Gender, Sect and Class in Northern Ireland, Eilish Rooney; 9. Minority Politics in Korea: Disability, Interraciality, and Gender, Eunjung Kim; 10. Migrant Women Destabilising Borders: Citizenship Debates in Ireland, Siobhan Mullally; Part 4: Alternative Pathways; 11. Structural Injustice and the Politics of Difference, Iris Marion Young; 12. Intersectional Travel Through Everyday Utopias: The Difference Sexual and Economic Dynamics Make, Davina Cooper; 13. Imagining Alternative Universalisms: Intersectionality and the Limits of Liberal Discourse, Lakshmi Arya; 14. Theorising Intersectionality: Identities, Equality, and Ontology, Momin Rahman
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Emily Grabham, Davina Cooper, Didi Herman, Jane Krishnadas
Review :
'This important book examines some of the complexities of intersectionality theory in feminist theory in general and in relation to legal issues in particular. In doing so it both problematises and promotes it as central to contemporary 'glocal' feminist theory and activism.'
Nira Yuval-Davis, Professor in Gender & Ethnic Studies, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London
'After almost twenty years of feminist discussion of gender’s intersection with other categories of identity, a collection like this one is way overdue. By addressing tensions between structural and cultural difference and alternative approaches, the collection poses hard questions and offers fresh, open-ended perspectives. This is an invaluable critical assessment of what has become a foundational idea in feminist studies.'
Rosemary Hennessy, Director, Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Rice University
'This important book examines some of the complexities of intersectionality theory in feminist theory in general and in relation to legal issues in particular. In doing so it both problematises and promotes it as central to contemporary 'glocal' feminist theory and activism.'
Nira Yuval-Davis, Professor in Gender & Ethnic Studies, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London
'After almost twenty years of feminist discussion of gender’s intersection with other categories of identity, a collection like this one is way overdue. By addressing tensions between structural and cultural difference and alternative approaches, the collection poses hard questions and offers fresh, open-ended perspectives. This is an invaluable critical assessment of what has become a foundational idea in feminist studies.'
Rosemary Hennessy, Director, Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Rice University
