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.

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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