ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities is a dynamic reference source to the key contemporary analytic in feminist thought: intersectionality. Comprising over 50 chapters by a diverse, international, and interdisciplinary team of contributors, the Companion is divided into nine parts:

  • Retracing intersectional genealogies
  • Intersectional methods and (inter)disciplinarity
  • Intersectionality’s travels
  • Intersectional borderwork
  • Trans* intersectionalities
  • Disability and intersectional embodiment
  • Intersectional science and data studies
  • Popular culture at the intersections
  • Rethinking intersectional justice

This accessibly written collection is essential reading for students, teachers, and researchers working in women’s and gender studies, sexuality studies, African American studies, sociology, politics, and other related subjects from across the humanities and social sciences.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

Accompanying intersectionality

part I|88 pages

Retracing intersectional genealogies

chapter 1|10 pages

An ethics of uncare

Coalition politics after the turn of the century

chapter 2|10 pages

The Memphis School

chapter 3|12 pages

Not your average counter-origin story

Intersectionality, Ida B. Wells, and Southern Horrors

chapter 4|12 pages

Ungendering intersectionality and reproductive justice

Returning to Hortense Spillers's “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe”

chapter 5|11 pages

Tool optimism

A history of the 1979 Second Sex conference and the afterlives of Audre Lorde

chapter 7|13 pages

Parable of the advocate

Speculative humanisms in Patricia J. Williams's The Alchemy of Race and Rights

chapter 8|10 pages

Reading at the nexus of neglect and fetishization

The “occult” of intersectionality

part II|92 pages

Intersectional methods and (inter)disciplinarity

chapter 9|16 pages

Beyond intersectional identities

Ten intersectional structural competencies for critical health equity research

chapter 10|16 pages

Waves and riptides

Mapping intersectionality's currents in feminist psychology

chapter 11|10 pages

Narratives in context

Locating racism and sexism in Black women's health experiences

chapter 13|8 pages

Intersectionality and ethnography

Sexual violence and racial subordination in the courts

chapter 14|13 pages

Journeys of intersectionality

Contingency and collision

chapter 15|10 pages

Who's afraid of identity?

Intersectionality and the struggle for, against, and beyond identity

part III|58 pages

Intersectionality's travels

chapter 19|10 pages

Loving critique

On intersectionality and ambiguity in North Africa and West Asia

chapter 21|14 pages

From travel to arrival

Mapping intersectionality's landings in the Global South

part IV|62 pages

Intersectional borderwork

chapter 23|9 pages

Origins

chapter 25|14 pages

The grid and the map

Intersectionality in migration

chapter 26|18 pages

Beyond intersectionality

The geopolitics of race and caste

part V|34 pages

Trans * intersectionalities

chapter 27|12 pages

“Before intersectionality” 1

chapter 28|10 pages

Trans of color liberation

An unauthorized history of the future

chapter 29|10 pages

Insurgent trans study

Radical trans feminism meets intersectionality

part VI|42 pages

Disability and intersectional embodiment

chapter 30|10 pages

DisCrit recovery

Correcting disability erasure for Black girls in the school–prison nexus

chapter 31|10 pages

Disability art on lockdown

Access and intersectionality in a pandemic

chapter 32|9 pages

Why is “I can't breathe” disbelieved?

George Floyd, Barbara Dawson, and the intersecting roots of anti-Black violence

chapter 33|11 pages

Intersecting pandemics

Violence, a virus, and Américo Paredes

part VII|48 pages

Intersectional science and data studies

chapter 35|12 pages

Intersectional feminist data visualization

Precepts and practices

chapter 36|8 pages

Intersectionality and its limits

Quantitative public health and the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections

part VIII|92 pages

Popular culture at the intersections

chapter 38|10 pages

Cultural appropriation and the paradox of method

Nikki S. Lee performing intersectionality

chapter 41|9 pages

“We come West and Ruth went East”

Musings on Sherley Anne Williams's “Meditations on History”

chapter 43|13 pages

“Stop treating BLM like Coachella”

The branding of intersectionality

chapter 44|15 pages

Megan Thee Stallion sings the blues

Black queer theory and intersectionality

part IX|100 pages

Rethinking intersectional justice

chapter 46|6 pages

Commercial affinity

“Intersectionality” and the limits of “racial capitalism”

chapter 47|9 pages

Turning on intersectionality

chapter 48|22 pages

Owning your masters (Taylor's Version)

Postfeminist tactical copyright and the erasure of Black intellectual labor

chapter 50|14 pages

Money good?

The problem and promise of Black women's prosperity

chapter 51|8 pages

#MeToo, intersectionality, law

chapter 53|13 pages

In the crosshairs

Black women, self-defense, and the politics of armed citizenship