Towards an intersectional postcapitalism

An Intersectional Approach to Discrimination

An intersectional approach to Men's Health

Men’s lives and health are rooted in opportunity structures that are shaped by race, ethnicity and other characteristics that have important social, political, economic and cultural meaning. Within men’s health, there is a need to consider how structural factors and men’s socially-defined characteristics affect the relationship between sex, gender and health. The goal of an intersectional appro...

An Intersectional Perspective in Social Work and Education

In this article we will describe fundamental results of the European Union (Grundtvig) project IGIV – Implementation Guideline for an Intersectional Peer Violence Preventive Work (Stuve et al. 2011). For the need analysis individual and group interviews have been conducted including a wide variety of social nongovernmental and public organizations working in the field of diversity and violence ...

Toward an Intersectional Understanding of Process Causality and Social Context

Maxwell and Donmoyer both argue in this issue of Qualitative Inquiry that narrow definitions of causality in educational research tend to disqualify qualitative research from influence (and funding) among policy makers. They propose a process view of causality that would allow qualitative researchers to make causal claims more grounded in the thick description of practice settings. In this arti...

Intersectional perspective in elderly care

Earlier research has shown that power relationships at workplaces are constructed by power structures. Processes related to power always influence the working conditions for (in this study in elderly care) the working groups involved. Power structures are central for intersectional analysis, in the sense that the intersectional perspective highlights aspects such as gender and ethnicity (subjec...