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Greta R. Bauer, Siobhan M. Churchill, Mayuri Mahendran, Chantel Walwyn + 2 more
'Chantel Walwyn' 'Daniel Lizotte' 'Alma Angelica Villa-Rueda'] Background Intersectionality is a theoretical framework rooted in the premise that human experience is jointly shaped by multiple social positions (e.g. race, gender), and cannot be adequately understood by considering social positions independently. Used…
Olena Hankivsky, Colleen Reid, Renee Cormier, Colleen Varcoe + 3 more
'Natalie Clark' 'Cecilia Benoit' 'Shari Brotman'] Women's health research strives to make change. It seeks to produce knowledge that promotes action on the variety of factors that affect women's lives and their health. As part of this general movement, important strides have been made to raise awareness of the health…
Christine Kelly, Lisette Dansereau, Jennifer Sebring, Katie Aubrecht + 4 more
'Maggie FitzGerald' 'Yeonjung Lee' 'Allison Williams' 'Barbara Hamilton-Hinch'] Many countries adopted comprehensive national initiatives to promote equity in higher education with the goal of transforming the culture of research. Major health research funders are supporting this work through calls for projects that…
Gemma Hunting, Olena Hankivsky, Ashlee Christoffersen
Background COVID-19 was a catalyst for popularizing intersectionality, an approach now recognized as central to understanding the inequitable consequences of COVID-19 and as a necessary lens for recovery. Yet, a key question remains: Did the pandemic provide the stimulus for improving or advancing operational…
Ursula Moffitt, Linda P. Juang, Moin Syed
The increasing application of intersectionality to the psychological study of identity development raises questions regarding how we as researchers construct and operationalize social identity categories, as well as how we best capture and address systems of oppression and privilege within our work. In the continental…
Daniel Holman, Alan Walker
Intersectionality has received an increasing amount of attention in health inequalities research in recent years. It suggests that treating social characteristics separately-mainly age, gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic position-does not match the reality that people simultaneously embody multiple characteristics…
Naomi W. Nishi, Erin Watley, Mary Jane Collier, Gabriela I. Morales
The factors that contribute to an individual’s and/or community’s access to veterinary care for their animal(s) are manifold. While some (potential) clients must navigate barriers, including transportation options, time off during business hours, physical access, cost of care, and language barriers, there are also…
Elin Siira, Karolina Linden, Sara Wallström, Ida Björkman
2.1### Intersectionality and nursing According to the Oxford English Dictionary, an ‘intersection’ is where two things cross or intersect (OED Online, ‘intersection, n.’, ), while ‘intersectionality’ refers to a theoretical approach from sociology based on the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as…
Stephen T. Russell, Meg D. Bishop, Jessica N. Fish
Sexual identity labels and meanings have been expanding. We explore how sexual identities are taking shape, intertwining, and emerging in new forms among a growing number of LGBTQ+ people (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning, or people whose identities are outside the historically…
Nashit Chowdhury, Tanvir C. Turin, Nicola Magnavita
Health disparities among marginalized populations persist in many developed countries despite substantial population health advancements, highlighting persistent systemic inequities. Visible minorities, defined as the non-White and non-Indigenous racialized population in Canada, face earlier disease onset, worse…
Jenny K. Rodriguez, Elisabeth Anna Guenther, Stella Nkomo, Marcela Mandiola
Intersectionality is one of the most important theoretical, methodological, and analytical tools to explore inequalities in social and economic life and understand how power relations are sustained between groups of people (Collins, ; Holvino, ). Its coinage in 1989 (see Crenshaw, ) is preceded by discussions in Black…
Mary Thompson-Hall, Edward R. Carr, Unai Pascual
Most current approaches focused on vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation to climate change frame gender and its influence in a manner out-of-step with contemporary academic and international development research. The tendency to rely on analyses of the sex-disaggregated gender categories of ‘men’ and ‘women’ as…
Bin Zhang, Wenqian Du, Bo Chang
The purpose of this study is to understand the intersection of race, gender, and sexual orientation through exploring the experiences of Asian American female sexual minority (AAFSM) college students in the U.S. Midwestern universities. We employed one of McCall’s three intersectionality methodological…
Shelly Grabe
Very few theories have generated the kind of interdisciplinary and international engagement that marks the intellectual history of intersectionality, leaving some authors to suggest that intersectionality is the most important theoretical contribution that the field of women’s studies has made thus far. Yet…
Emma Calow
This perspective paper considers what scholars and teachers of sport sociology can (un)learn by applying the concept of intersectionality in research and in the classroom. I focus on contemporary forms of activism in the context of sport in the United States (U.S.) and demonstrate intersectionality's utility through…
Felicia Lazaridou, Suman Fernando
whiteness : A strategy for professional competence training in culture and migration mental health Authors: ['Felicia Lazaridou' 'Suman Fernando'] The position presented in this article draws on the professional insights of the authors, reflecting on issues of global political importance in culture and migration mental…
Margarita Azmitia, Katherine Cumings Mansfield
The concept of intersectionality, an analytic framework or lens for investigating how social identities are configured by power and oppression, was introduced by Crenshaw ([6]) in the Stanford Law Review. In this publication, Crenshaw argued that gender, race, social class, and sexuality are inseparable and…
Shreya Atrey
The central case methodology captures the features that something must have in order for it to be that thing. As applied to the field of discrimination law, the methodology helps identify both the central cases of discrimination as well as the key features of discrimination law which address such discrimination.…
Elena Ball, Melanie C. Steffens, Claudia Niedlich
Concerning race and its intertwinements with gender, sexual orientation, class, accents, or ability there is a scarcity of social psychological research in Europe. With an intersectional approach studying racism in Europe it is possible to detect specific experiences of discrimination. The prevalent understanding of…