Framing Intersectionality: Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept in Gender Studies

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Contents: Preface, Mary Evans Framing intersectionality an introduction, Helma Lutz, Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar and Linda Supik Section I Intersectionality's Transatlantic Travels a Geographies of the Debate: Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: a Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory, and antiracist politics, KimberlA(c) Crenshaw Intersectionality as buzzword: a sociology of science perspective on what makes a feminist theory successful, Kathy Davis The discursive politics of feminist intersectionality, Myra Marx Ferree. Section II Emerging Fields in Intersectionality: Masculinities, Heteronormativity and Transnationality: Marginalized masculinity, precarization and the gender order, Mechthild Bereswill and Anke Neuber Neglected intersectionalities in studying men: age/ing, virtuality, transnationality, Jeff Hearn Exposures and invisibilities: media, masculinities and the narratives of wars in an intersectional perspective, Dubravka Zarkov Sexuality and migration studies: the invisible, the oxymoronic and heteronormative othering, Kira Kosnick Psychosocial intersections: contextualising the accounts of adults who grew up in visibly ethnically different households, Ann Phoenix. Section III Advancing Intersectionality: Potentials, Limits and Critical Queries: Beyond the recognition and re-distribution dichotomy: intersectionality and stratification, Nira Yuval-Davis Embodiment is always more: intersectionality, subjection and the body, Paula Villa Intersectional invisibility: inquiries into a concept of intersectionality studies, Gudrun Axeli Knapp Intersectional analysis: black box or useful critical feminist thinking technology?, Nina Lykke Postscript, KimberlA(c) Crenshaw Index.

The authors' abstract, as published at the source. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, 2012 · DOI ↗