Chapter One: Intersectionality: Intellectual Property or Meme?
Chapter Two: The Activist Roots of Intersectionality
Chapter Three: The Multicultural Epistemology of
Intersectionality
Chapter Four: Bridges, Interstices and Intersections
Chapter Five: "We Are Named By Others and We Are Named By
Ourselves": Social Constructivism and Intersectionality-Like
Thinking
Chapter Six: Whither Intersectionality?
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Ange-Marie Hancock is Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.
"An outstanding book that is essential reading for anyone
interested in intersectionality. That is to say, if there is an
intersectionality canon, this book clearly belongs in it."
-- Devon W. Carbado, Professor of Law, UCLA, and co-author of
Acting White? Rethinking Race in Post Racial America
"This book is overdue and a welcome intervention. It will be
particularly important for students, who can't be expected to put
together the historical perspective and intellectual genealogy that
Hancock delivers in this book. Hancock's attention to the work of
scholar-activists on intersectionality is especially important and
often overlooked, as is her attention to women theorizing
intersectionality outside the US."
-- Elisabeth Cole, Professor, Women's Studies, Psychology, and
Afroamerican & African Studies, University of Michigan
"In this groundbreaking text Hancock faces head on with rigor, deft
and elegance some of the most controversial tensions and
controversies in the field. She offers new interpretations and
fresh insights essential to the continual development of
intersectionality for advancing social justice and equality both
within and outside the academy."
-- Olena Hankivsky, Professor, School of Public Policy, and
Director, Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy,
Simon Fraser University
"Intersectionality: An Intellectual History proves a valuable
contribution to feminist scholarship on intersectionality's many
lives. Not only does the book reveal the importance of historical
approaches to intersectionality, it also develops the rich concept
of stewardship that provides a vocabulary for considering mindful,
ethical deployments of intersectionality that ensure the analytic's
future vitality."
--Jennifer C. Nash, George Washington University
"Strong in its extensive consideration of less well-used sources
among intersectionality scholars. Hancock brings together Indian,
Mexican, Egyptian, Filipina, Canadian, Chinese, and Senegalese
feminist work with American black and Chicana feminists' work in a
way that is uncommon in most intersectionality scholarship."
-- Choice
"This book provides an important analysis of the development of the
concept [of intersectionality] in both activist and intellectual
contexts and helps us move beyond some of the problems that have
arisen as intersectionality has gained currency within the US
academy."
--Leela Fernandes, University of Michigan in New Political
Science
"[Intersectionality] is a timely and important intervention in the
study of power and politics. Hancock proves to be a skillful guide,
continually drawing out easy-to-miss insights and distinctions as
she leads us through a rich history of intersectional thought and
practice."
-- Zein Murib and Joe Soss, University of Minnesota in New
Political Science
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