Intersectionality and Beyond: Law, Power and the Politics of Location

by Grabham; Emily

• ISBN13: 9780415432429
• ISBN10: 0415432421
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-16
• Publisher: Routledge-Caven

Summary

This collection addresses the present and the future of the concept of intersectionality within socio-legal studies. 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

List of contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiv
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Mapping intersectionalities	p. 19
Intersectionality and the feminist project in law	p. 21
The complexity of intersectionality	p. 49
Confronting law	p. 77
Intersectionality analysis in the sentencing of Aboriginal women in Canada: what difference does it make?	p. 79
Sexual violence, ethnicity, and intersectionality in international criminal law	p. 105
Intersectionality in theory and practice	p. 124
Identifying disadvantage: beyond intersectionality	p. 159
Intersectionality: traumatic impressions	p. 183
Power relations and the state	p. 203
Transitional intersections: gender, sect, and class in Northern Ireland	p. 205
Minority politics in Korea: disability, interraciality, and gender	p. 230
Migrant women destabilizing borders: citizenship debates in Ireland	p. 251
Alternative pathways	p. 271
Structural injustice and the politics of difference	p. 273
Intersectional travel through everyday utopias: the difference sexual and economic dynamics make	p. 299
Imagining alternative universalisms: intersectionality and the limits of liberal discourse	p. 326
Theorising intersectionality: identities, equality and ontology	p. 352
Index	p. 374
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