Situating Intersectionality: Politics, Policy, and Power

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Intersectionality from Theoretical Framework to Policy Intervention....Pages 11-41
Intersectional Advances? Inclusionary and Intersectional State Action in Uruguay....Pages 43-61
ID Cards as Access: Negotiating Transgender (and Intersex) Bodies into the Chilean Legal System....Pages 63-88
International Adoption as Humanitarian Aid: The Discursive and Material Production of the “Social Orphan” in Haitian Disaster Relief....Pages 89-106
Gendered Subjectivity and Intersectional Political Agency in Transnational Space: The Case of Turkish and Kurdish Women’s NGO Activists....Pages 107-129
Gender Variance: The Intersection of Understandings Held in the Medical and Social Sciences....Pages 131-155
Intersectional Analysis at the Medico-Legal Borderland: HIV Testing Innovations and the Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure....Pages 157-187
Crossroads or Categories? Intersectionality Theory and the Case of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Equalities Initiatives in UK Local Government....Pages 189-207
Back Matter....Pages 209-215