Abandoning inauthentic intersectionality

Intersectionality and Leadership

The overall body of existing leadership diversity studies has focused only on one or two diversity attributes, missing the effects of multiple intersecting attributes. This study uses intersectionality theory to examine the interactions of surface level diversity attributes to dissect leader identity. Based on qualitative narratives and a substantial literature review, this study examines pheno...

Psychologically authentic versus inauthentic replication attempts.

What is an authentic replication attempt and what is not? Gerber et al.’s paper (1) gives us the opportunity to reflect on this issue of longstanding concern to us. Gerber et al. (1) attempted to replicate our 2011 research (2), which showed that referring to voting with nouns rather than verbs in a pre-election survey (e.g., “How important is it to you to [be a voter/ vote]. . .”) could increa...

'Home Truths' on Intersectionality

In the wake of intersectionality's trans-disciplinary institutionalization, this Article considers how the meaning and practice of intersectionality has changed in different historical moments. This Article studies three periods in black feminism's long history of doing intersectional work: an early period (1968-87) marked by a broad conception of intersectionality, the watershed years (1988-90...

Intersectionality, Inequality and Maternal Health

Intersectionality and research in psychology.

Feminist and critical race theories offer the concept of intersectionality to describe analytic approaches that simultaneously consider the meaning and consequences of multiple categories of identity, difference, and disadvantage. To understand how these categories depend on one another for meaning and are jointly associated with outcomes, reconceptualization of the meaning and significance of ...