Intersectionality and Beyond

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.

Part One: Mapping Intersectionalities; 1. Joanne Conaghan: Intersectionality and the Feminist Project in Law; 2. Leslie McCall: The Complexity of Intersectionality; Part Two: Confronting Law; 3. Toni Williams: Intersectionality Analysis in the Sentencing of Aboriginal Women in Canada: What Difference Does it Make?; 4. Doris Buss: Sexual Violence, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality in International Criminal Law; 5. Suzanne B. Goldberg: Intersectionality in Theory and Practice; 6. Rosemary Hunter and Tracey De Simone: Identifying Disadvantage: Beyond Intersectionality; 7. Emily Grabham: Intersectionality: Traumatic Impressions; Part Three: Power Relations and the State; 8. Eilish Rooney: Transitional Intersections: Gender, Sect, and Class in Northern Ireland; 9. Eunjung Kim: Minority Politics in Korea: Disability, Interraciality, and Gender; 10. Siobhan Mullally: Migrant Women Destabilising Borders: Citizenship Debates in Ireland; Part Four: Alternative Pathways; 11. Iris Marion Young: Structural Injustice and the Politics of Difference; 12. Davina Cooper: Intersectional Travel Through Everyday Utopias: The Difference Sexual and Economic Dynamics Make; 13. Lakshmi Arya: Imagining Alternative Universalisms: Intersectionality and the Limits of Liberal Discourse; 14. Momin Rahman: Theorising Intersectionality: Identities, Equality, and Ontology