Title: Gender: An Intersectionality Perspective | SpringerLink
Headings: Gender: An Intersectionality Perspective
Gender: An Intersectionality Perspective
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Introduction
Intersectionality of Social Identities: A Brief History
Intersectionality as a Perspective on Research
Intersectionality: From Fact of Identity to Theory
Intersectionality as a Methodological Challenge
It’s Not Psychology
Not Enough Information
A Perspective in Search of a Method
An Intersectionality Perspective on Gender: Best Practices in Behavioral Research
Why Intersectionality Is an Urgent Issue
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Content: It is also widely agreed that intersections create both oppression and opportunity (Baca Zinn and Thornton Dill 1996 ). In other words, being on the advantaged side offers more than avoidance of disadvantage or oppression by actually opening up access to rewards, status, and opportunities unavailable to other intersections. Furthermore, an intersectional position may be disadvantaged relative to one group, but advantaged relative to another. The White lesbian may be disadvantaged because of divergence from the heterosexual norm and standard, but relative to other lesbians she enjoys racial privilege. Last and not least, identities instantiate social stratification. That is, identity, such as gender or social class, may be experienced as a feature of individual selves, but it also reflects the operation of power relations among groups that comprise that identity category. In this issue we specifically focus on bringing the intersectionality perspective to bear on empirical research on gender. We focus on social subdisciplines of psychology in their broadest sense, that is, the individual in social context. To the best of my knowledge, the emerging body of empirical research on gender using an intersectionality perspective has not yet been brought together in a single volume. We intend this special issue to offer a kind of “best practices” resource that provides models for when and how intersectionality can inform theory and be incorporated into empirical research methods.