The Routledge International Handbook of Intersectionality Studies

Kathy Davis is Senior Research Fellow in the Sociology Department at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the author of Power Under the Microscope, Reshaping the Female Body, Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences, The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders, and Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World. She is the editor of Embodied Practices: Feminist Perspectives on the Body and the co-editor of Contested Belonging: Spaces, Practices, Biographies, Transatlantic Conversations: Feminism as Travelling Theory, The Sage Handbook of Gender and Women’s Studies, The Gender of Power, and Embodied Practices: Feminist Perspectives on the Body. Helma Lutz is Professor Emeritus of Women’s and Gender Studies and acting director of the Cornelia Goethe Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She is the co-author of Gender and Migration: Transnational and Intersectional Prospects; the author of The New Maids: Transnational Women and the Care Economy; the editor of Migration and Domestic Work: A European Perspective on a Global Theme; and co-editor of Framing Intersectionality: Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept in Gender Studies, The New Migration in Europe: Social Constructions and Social Realities, and Crossfires: Nationalism, Racism and Gender in Europe.

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