Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality - Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences by Y Taylor & S Hines & M Casey Paperback

Book Synopsis

This book re-examines political, conceptual and methodological concerns of 'intersectionality', bringing these into conversation with sexuality studies. It explores sexual identifications, politics and inequalities as these (dis)connect across time and place, and are re-constituted in relation to class, disability, ethnicity, gender and age.

Review Quotes

'Since the 1980s theories of intersectionality have provided a vital means of exploring the overlapping, interweaving forms of power and domination, especially around race, gender and class, and the ways they impact on the reality of individual lives. In this important new book the contributors turn a supportive but critical eye on the debates so far, but also highlight the absences. Sexuality, especially, so important in the early days of debates about intersectionality, has often been neglected. This book more than makes up for a gap. It opens up the debate in new and insightful ways, and underlines the continuing relevance of the idea of intersectionality.' - Jeffrey Weeks, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London South Bank University, UK

'A politically provocative and theoretically challenging collection of essays that should stimulate debate about the much used concept of "intersectionality" across the critical social sciences.' - Sasha Roseneil, Professor of Sociology and Social Theory, Birkbeck University of London, UK

About the Author

ROSIE CAMPBELL is a Freelance Research, Policy and Training Consultant in the UK KENDAL L. BROAD is Associate Professor, jointly-appointed with the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research and the Department of Sociology at the University of Florida, USA JAMES J. DEAN is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University, USA GABRIELE DIETZE is a Fellow at the ICI Berlin (Institute for Cultural Inquiry), Germany UMUT EREL is RCUK Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, Open University, UK JIN HARITAWORN has just concluded postdoctoral research in Media and Communications Studies at Goldsmiths College, UK ELAHE HASCHEMI YEKANI is a Lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany KAY INCKLE lectures in the School of Social Work and Social Policy in Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland CHRISTIAN KLESSE is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ELIZABETH MCDERMOTT is a Social Policy Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York, UK BEATRICE MICHAELIS is a Lecturer for German Medieval Studies at Humboldt University Berlin and TU Dresden, Germany SURYA MONRO is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield, UK MAGGIE O'NEILL is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy in the Dept Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK DIANE RICHARDSON is Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University, UK ENCARNACIÓN GUTÍERREZ RODRÍGUEZ is Senior Lecturer in Transcultural Studies in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK FRANCESCA STELLA is a Lecturer at the Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, UK KATH WESTON is Professor of Anthropology and Studies in Women and Gender at the University of Virginia, USA