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

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.

Part 1: Mapping the Concept 1. Intersectionality and the Feminist Project in Law Joanne Conaghan 2. The Complexity of Intersectionality Leslie McCall Part 2: Confronting Law 3. Intersectionality Analysis in the Sentencing of Aboriginal Women in Canada: What Difference Does it Make? Toni Williams 4. Sexual Violence, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality in International Criminal Law Doris Buss 5. Intersectionality in Theory and Practice Suzanne Goldberg 6. Identifying Disadvantage: Beyond Intersectionality Rosemary Hunter and Tracey De Simone 7. Intersectionality: Traumatic Impressions Emily Grabham Part 3: Power Relations and the State 8. Transitional Intersections: Gender, Sect and Class in Northern Ireland Eilish Rooney 9. Minority Politics in Korea: Disability, Interraciality, and Gender Eunjung Kim 10. Rights at the Intersection: Recasting Fragments, Rebuilding Cultural, Spatial and Material Lives Jane Krishnadas 11. Migrant Women Destabilising Borders: Citizenship Debates in Ireland Siobhan Mullally Part 4: Complicating Intersectionality 12. Alternative Universalisms: Intersectionality and the Limits of Liberal Discourse Lakshmi Arya 1 3. Inequality and Difference in Everyday Utopia Davina Cooper 14. Theorising Intersectionality: Identities, Equality, and Ontology Momin Rahman