The Problem With the Phrase Women and Minorities:Intersectionality—an Important Theoretical Framework for Public Health

dc.contributor.authorBowleg, Lisa
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:07:33Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:07:33Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractIntersectionality is a theoretical framework that posits that multiple social categories (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status) intersect at the micro level of individual experience to reflect multiple interlocking systems of privilege and oppression at the macro, social-structural level (e.g., racism, sexism, heterosexism). Public health’s commitment to social justice makes it a natural fit with intersectionality’s focus on multiple historically oppressed populations. Yet despite a plethora of research focused on these populations, public health studies that reflect intersectionality in their theoretical frameworks, designs, analyses, or interpretations are rare. Accordingly, I describe the history and central tenets of intersectionality, address some theoretical and methodological challenges, and highlight the benefits of intersectionality for public health theory, research, and policy. Read More: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2012.300750?prevSearch=%5BContrib%3A+Bowleg%5D&searchHistoryKey=
dc.description.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2012.300750
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/hxur-ddpn
dc.identifier.citationBowleg, Lisa (2012) The Problem With the Phrase Women and Minorities:Intersectionality—an Important Theoretical Framework for Public Health. American Journal of Public Health, 102 (7). p. 1267.
dc.identifier.issn0090-0036
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 3948
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/24442
dc.subjectDisparities
dc.subjectPolicy
dc.subjectPublic Health
dc.titleThe Problem With the Phrase Women and Minorities:Intersectionality—an Important Theoretical Framework for Public Health
dc.typeArticle

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