Assistant Professor of Political Science, Michael Strawbridge, recently co-authored an article titled, "Intersectional Identity and Representative Politics," that was published in the journal, Politics & Gender. Strawbridge worked with Nadia E. Brown (Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program - Georgetown), Dr. Orly Siow (Lecturer in Politics of Gender - Newcastle University), Christopher J. Clark (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), and Anna M. Mahoney (Executive Director of the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth). You can read the full article at this link.
Abstract:
Representation scholarship has drawn from intersectionality theory to examine how systemic structures of oppression and privilege have created social groups with distinct political needs. Derived from Black feminist theory that recognizes that identities are mutually constitutive and interconnected, intersectionality research is rooted in the lived experiences of marginalized groups who call attention to social (in)justice. Empirical scholarship building on the insights of Black feminist theorists such as Collins and Bilge (2016), Hill Collins (1990), Crenshaw (1989; 1991), and King (1988) has constituted nothing less than a paradigm shift in the study of gender and politics. Nevertheless, there remain an array of opportunities to expand upon the potential for intersectional frameworks and methods, as well as pressing new questions concerning the operationalization of intersectionality itself. This Critical Perspectives section offers a moment to take stock of these developments and debates, as well as to highlight new pathways for scholarship committed to centering the margins and considering the nexus of multiple power structures that frame our political lives.
